the driest period from June to December ever recorded
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It is so easy to beat “ever recorded”. The records go only back some 150 years.
In Europe in couple places about 300years.
Chance of beating some weather “record” is pretty good!
Especially in daily max/mins. If the weather was totally random, we would expect to break “record” in given place 4x year. There are millions of places on the Earth. Chances of beating some record somewhere in given day is pretty close to 100%.
I live about 35 miles from Boulder and 2,200 feet higher. Had one of the best gardens in the last 15 years because May, June and the first part of July were wetter than ever. I hardly watered at all and normally I pour tons of water on and still don’t get the results I saw last summer.
It is true that it has been very dry since then with no snowfall to speak of until the day after the Boulder/Louisville fires.
The dryness was definitely a factor, as were the 110 mph winds, but the early season rains were the primary causative factor in the intensity of the fires. The weeds and grasses in the Boulder/Louisville area had undoubtedly grown to epic proportions just like my garden did.