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Posted on 10/16/2022 1:00:30 AM PDT by libh8er
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- Move over Seattle! According to the National Weather Service, Seattle got less rain between July and October than Arizona did!
National Weather Service Seattle released a graphic comparing the total precipitation numbers among different cities across the U.S. The city with the most rainfall totals was Juneau, Alaska, coming in at almost 30 inches! Phoenix marked almost 2 inches of rain, trumping Las Vegas, San Diego, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles! The NWS Seattle posted a full analysis on their Twitter page.
Seattle, sometimes called “Rain City,” is no stranger to various kinds of precipitation, including snow. Seattle-Tacoma Airport has been calculating the city’s precipitation totals since 1945, according to the Seattle Weather blog. On average, the city sees 39.34 inches of precipitation yearly. However, most of the inches come from rainfall rather than snowfall.
Here in Phoenix, our precipitation is calculated at the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, which marked 2.23″ of rain from June 15 until Sept. 30, the monsoon “season.” Arizona’s Family First Alert Weather team says they’re anticipating a below-average rainfall total for 2022. In fact, 2022 is the fourth year in the past decade with below-average summer rain. According to the National Weather Service, the wettest year for Phoenix was 1905. That year saw a grand total of 19.73 inches of rain! The driest year was 2002, which saw 2.82 inches of total rainfall.
According to NWS, while these numbers might not yet be cause for significant concern if the dryness continues through October, “the more noteworthy this becomes.” It’s no surprise that most of the world continues to be in a drought, a phenomenon experts say is because of climate change. China reported its driest summer in 60 years, Europe was forced to enact water restrictions, and the Northeast began reporting more dryness than its ever seen before.
The drought is heavily impacting our National Parks. This past summer, Grand Canyon National Park saw a lessened water flow of the Colorado River since the snow was “melting about a month earlier than it did a century ago, and there’s evaporation as well,” Mark Nebel, the park’s geosciences program manager, told CNN. Upstream, Lake Powell saw a huge dip in water levels, bringing rockslides, corpses, and more to the surface than had ever been seen before.
So why is climate “change” necessarily bad ?
Look for the parts of the world where there was more rainfall than usual. That’s where all the water went.
shhhhh. it’s called weather......
Mead Lake could use some of that.
Because they want us to pay weather taxes.
The Pacific Northwest usually gets dry weather in late summer/fall, because a strong high-pressure cell forms just off the coast and keeps all the storm weather away ... this has gone on for years, and not just recently because of “climate change”, as MSM likes to scream
that cell is in place now, which is why Vancouver and Seattle are getting water shortages ... “normal” rainy weather weather will return as soon as it breaks down, but that could be days or weeks ...
in the meantime, even in Calgary, we’re getting to enjoy warm sunny fall weather
And Az is just ending what we call our normal “Monsoon” season. About the only time of year it actually gets any rain at all.
2.23” pfftt. We got probably over an inch TODAY (SE Gilbert)
It’s raining like crazy. Glad to see it, here hoping the northern area get enough snow this winter to fill the reservoir ps.
Is it possible the Huanga Tonga Volcano that put an estimated 58 billion tons of ash and vapor into the atmosphere has something to do with this rainfall phenomenon.
And of course yesterday was our Phoenix Church Picnic!
We’ve never seen such quantities of rain. We are competing with Florida on that scale. Even the water levels of the lakes are rising again given the runoff. At least they can’t get away with man-made manipulation of the water table with this amount of rain.
El Nino. Third year in row. Unusual, yes. It is being driven by unusual lack of sunspot activity. Climate change? Climate’s always changing.
I'd say it's gotten heavier each year the past 5 years. My first year in AZ, I saw 2 drops. We counted them with the kids. It probably rained elsewhere, but these past few years have been wonderful! (Temps drop by up to 15-20 degrees.)
Exactly, please don't tell anyone. We only want conservative Californians coming to a cooler Arizona. :D
Exactly. It’s all about high and low pressures and as another person here said, volcanic activity. After Pinatubo erupted in 91 there was a ton of rain in L.A. where I lived at the time.
Try la niña.
Yes, La Nina right now. And that is a pocket of cold water in the Pacific. Definitely Global Warming.
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