RitcheyRch
03-01-2007, 11:26 AM
Guess I need to go out and do the rain dance. :D
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_060113742.html
Less than an inch of rain fell in downtown Los Angeles last month, helping make the current rain season the second driest on record, meteorologists said Thursday.
Despite this week's two weather systems, downtown received .92 inches of rain last month -- not the driest of Februaries but well below the normal of 3.68 inches, according to the National Weather Service.
February is generally the wettest month of the year in Los Angeles. Even with only 0.92 inches, last month was the wettest month of the current weather season, which starts July 1 and ends June 31, the NWS said in an advisory. In fact, this February was the wettest month since April.
"This season is currently the second driest rain season to date in downtown Los Angeles since records began in 1877," the advisory said, adding that so far this season the downtown area has received "a paltry" 2.42 inches of rain, only 22 per cent of what is normal.
The driest July-February period on record in downtown was in 1923-24, when, by this time of the year, the area had recorded only 1.82 inches of rain, according to the NWS.
During the driest season ever -- the 2001-02 season -- precipitation from July 1 to Feb. 28 totaled 3.95 inches in the downtown area.
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_060113742.html
Less than an inch of rain fell in downtown Los Angeles last month, helping make the current rain season the second driest on record, meteorologists said Thursday.
Despite this week's two weather systems, downtown received .92 inches of rain last month -- not the driest of Februaries but well below the normal of 3.68 inches, according to the National Weather Service.
February is generally the wettest month of the year in Los Angeles. Even with only 0.92 inches, last month was the wettest month of the current weather season, which starts July 1 and ends June 31, the NWS said in an advisory. In fact, this February was the wettest month since April.
"This season is currently the second driest rain season to date in downtown Los Angeles since records began in 1877," the advisory said, adding that so far this season the downtown area has received "a paltry" 2.42 inches of rain, only 22 per cent of what is normal.
The driest July-February period on record in downtown was in 1923-24, when, by this time of the year, the area had recorded only 1.82 inches of rain, according to the NWS.
During the driest season ever -- the 2001-02 season -- precipitation from July 1 to Feb. 28 totaled 3.95 inches in the downtown area.