Al Latham always has a good take on the weather. He’s our local weatherman down in Center Valley.
Greetings Earthlings – here’s the July rainfall report from www.cocorahs.org station WA-JF-1, located 5.1 miles south of beautiful downtown Chimacum.Rainfall/precipitation/whatever for July was 1.42″ with 0.09″ the average here. Though the rain came in small amounts it was comforting to get some moisture this time of year.Not good for those trying to make hay – some unexpected rain with hay down created some losses for the hay makers. Unusual for July.The water year (Oct1 – Sept30) so far has accumulated 25.9″ with the average being 32.5″ so we’re still well below the average and with little chance of making up the difference before end of Sept.You may wonder what is meant by “average” rainfall. It takes 30 years of records to come up with an average. “The reason behind choosing the 30 years is to represent the climatic condition of that place. Here, to note, climate is the average condition of weather over a considerable length of time, that doesn’t have much variation. In climatic studies we generally take this length of time as 30 years (or sometime 35 years).” Here at Station WA-JF-1 we have records dating back to 1981 so we have enough data to determine an average for this location.NOAA Climate Prediction Center’s guesstimate for what we have in store for us weather wise for Aug – Oct is warmer than “normal” with an equal chance of wetter, drier or average rainfall. Not sure what how they define “normal” when it comes to weather…..That’s it for this report. Al
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