28inches
Posted by Anita S. on October 23, 2006 at 5:04 PMCheck one of the weather sites - I use http://wunderground.com. It takes some digging to find this info, and it's only available for larger towns. But, on the left-hand side, several boxes down, is a "History and Almanac" section. Click the button to see weather history, then select a custom view, and the two dates you want to span. For example, http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KPSM/2005/7/21/CustomHistory.html?dayend=21&monthend=7&yearend=2006&req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA is the past year's data for Portsmouth, NH, including a precipitation total.
Posted by Abby on July 22, 2006 at 12:43 AMTotal rainfall last year was about 24 inches.
Posted by Christopher Swan on July 20, 2006 at 4:03 PM25-26 inches last season
5 or 6 above normal
Approximately 12 inches. This can be found in the local newspaper and through the national weather service.
Posted by Lynne on July 13, 2006 at 12:16 AMLook at the weather almanac in the local paper (Helena Independent Record). It was less than 15 inches.
Posted by Bobbie on July 13, 2006 at 12:16 AM30 cm
Posted by Dave Barnes on July 12, 2006 at 5:28 AMI think, just a guess, 28 inches? I know that I'll be looking it up as soon as I finish this survey. It's the sort of thing you read in the newspaper every year, but I'll be damned if I can remember it. If I needed to know, I'd look it up in a farmer's almanac, or call the local paper.
Posted by Jane on February 18, 2006 at 11:25 PMThe two urls mentioned below are a good start, but don't answer the question. Anyone have a better precipitation website?
Posted by Kevin Kelly on October 3, 2005 at 6:37 PMAround 35 inches.
Almanac, intellicast.com, local weather news, library, rain guage, etc.
Posted by John S. Quarterman on September 18, 2005 at 4:57 AMI believe our average is 26 inches per year. Last year may have been a little heavier than normal, but we haven't had huge variations for years.
Posted by path on September 15, 2005 at 3:22 AMNational Climatic Data Center
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/city.html
Wow, totally don't know. 60". Let's see... 32 inches! Wow. http://climvis.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/cag3/hr-display3.pl What a pain to dig this out.
Posted by Christopher Wanko on September 12, 2005 at 8:35 PM
I'm living in the Sonoran desert's western-most edge (Coachella Valley). By common definition a desert receives less than 10 inches. If I want to know exactly, I would Google it. My region does not have uniformitarian weather...so it does not change on a yearly pattern, rather in cycles of several years, such cycles not being even. I know this from teaching geography, studying for my old eco-tour-guide job, and general geek reading. I first learned about uniformitarian and non-uniformitarian climates when reading Mike Davis' Ecology of Fear. In coastal CA, there are not seasonal averages in the same way as in the NE United States. There are long periods when the region can be extra dry or extra rainy, with the rains still generally occuring in the winters. The high-pressure, rain shadow desert I live in can sometimes be penetrated by Pacific storms.
Posted by Kristen A on November 29, 2006 at 9:50 AM