Can you believe last year we were in a major drought?!?! It's amazing to see the exact opposite this year! Here are some numbers for the Quad Cities - we've had more rain in less than 6 months this year than we did ALL OF LAST YEAR!
And it's been pretty consistent for most of the year too...here are the monthly totals for 2013.
Jan. - 2.86"
Feb. - 2.54"
Mar. - 2.57"
Apr. - 7.21"
May - 7.97"
Jun. - 5.40"
June had been off to a dry start until this week happened! Of the 5.40" rain in June about 80% of that has fallen just over the last 48-72 hours! Hopefully we can turn this trend around soon and let things dry out a little bit, and we could do without severe storms for a while now too! We've had at least 7 tornadoes in the Quad Cities area over the last month or so!
And just in case you're wondering - the record for rainfall in one year in the Quad cities comes from 1973with 56.36" of rain!
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