Posted on 12/29/2005 5:31:00 AM PST by skeptoid
Ketchikan precipitation inches toward record year SOGGY: Most residents agree on 202.55-inch mark apparently set in 1949.
By JOANNA MARKELL Ketchikan Daily News
Published: December 29, 2005 Last Modified: December 29, 2005 at 02:39 AM
KETCHIKAN -- Ketchikan is famous for liquid sunshine and rubber boots, but this year's rainfall is inching toward the record books.
As of early Tuesday, the Flight Service Station at Ketchikan International Airport had measured 192.95 inches of precipitation for the year. The record -- at least as far as most residents are concerned -- is 202.55 inches, set in 1949. Rain is in the forecast through New Year's Day.
Kimberly Vaughan, a hydrometeorological technician with the National Weather Service in Juneau, said it has been wet across the region this year.
"Sitka had mudslides with heavy rain, and so did Haines," she said. "It was just a very wet winter, and temperatures stayed slightly above normal. It wasn't coming down as snow."
Juneau, too, has had its share of landslides and flooding this season. In Ketchikan, a mudslide blocked a portion of the Brown Mountain Road in late September.
Ketchikan had 39 consecutive days of rain from Oct. 20 to Nov. 27, which wasn't a record. The town also had 39 consecutive days of rain in 1999 and 1977. The record was 101 consecutive days of rain, set in 1953, Vaughan said.
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Ketchikan isn't gloomy! Ketchikan along with Wrangell are two of the places I would love to live. This is allot of rain; the rain comes down (typically) light, not heavy tropical downpours. So it has rained often this year there. SE Alaska has great towns and great residents. I don't think it's any more grey than Seattle is, IMO.
I guess that's why they call it a rain forest.
I have been there many times, not the place for a commercial greenhouse, thats for sure.
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