IEM Daily Feature
Monday, 27 September 2010

Inch plus rain events

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:11 AM


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This year has certainly seen more than its fair share of heavy rainfall events. The featured chart presents the contribution of daily rainfall events over an inch along with all other rainfall events for Ames. The only other year that compares with this year was the epic summer of 1993. This year has seen one more heavy rainfall event than 1993 and these events (12) have totalled 24.5 inches of rain! No more heavy rainfall events are in the immediate forecast with a prolonged stretch of dry weather expected.

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