Rainfall for the year

[SeaCat]

Okay so I'm a bit on the Geek side at times. Out of curiousity I started keeping track of the rainfall here where I live by month.

Last Year we received a total of 43.10 inches of rain. (And now we're in drought conditions.)

Cat

 

[Handley_Page]

Okay so I'm a bit on the Geek side at times. Out of curiousity I started keeping track of the rainfall here where I live by month.

Last Year we received a total of 43.10 inches of rain. (And now we're in drought conditions.)

Cat

Gotta lower the average somehow, Cat.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

YTD we're at 11.70 with an average total of 3.83 so we're doing pretty well. Now if we can just get an average February (our rainiest month) we'll be set for the summer. After March, we hardly ever get any!

 

[trysail]

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http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/climate/cliplot/KCHO2009plot.png​

 

[SlickTony]

Okay so I'm a bit on the Geek side at times. Out of curiousity I started keeping track of the rainfall here where I live by month.

Last Year we received a total of 43.10 inches of rain. (And now we're in drought conditions.)

Cat

My dad used to do the same thing. He kept records for years and years and years.

 

[DarthJulius]

Damn that global warming.

 

[TE999]

We here on the Treasure Coast receive, on the average, 54 in. of rain per year and presently we are under drought conditions and a fire watch. My water wells draw just fine and they're down 90 ft. Go figure.

 

[Weird Harold]

We here on the Treasure Coast receive, on the average, 54 in. of rain per year and presently we are under drought conditions and a fire watch. My water wells draw just fine and they're down 90 ft. Go figure.

The water that refills your well doesn't fall on your location.

Perhaps you should look into capturing and storing some of that 54" of water that does fall on you so you don't need so much from the drought-stricken aquifer.

 

[TE999]

The water that refills your well doesn't fall on your location.

Perhaps you should look into capturing and storing some of that 54" of water that does fall on you so you don't need so much from the drought-stricken aquifer.

This is true.

We're restricted to two lawn sprinkling's per week, no more than 15 minutes per section which I observe. Rain barrels are fine for spot watering of container plants, but impractical for large scale irrigation.

Ideally, all yards should be Xeriscaped and large maintained areas such as golf courses, parks and cemeteries should be either eliminated or allowed to go fallow with occasional mowing. Like that's going to happen.

A house two blocks away from me has allowed their yard to go 'natural' and their neighbors are outraged because it's so unkempt.

 

[Weird Harold]

We're restricted to two lawn sprinkling's per week, no more than 15 minutes per section which I observe. Rain barrels are fine for spot watering of container plants, but impractical for large scale irrigation.

Rain-barrels are just window dressing in a region that gets 54"/Yr -- You need something like the 2,500 gal+ rainwater bladder "Ask This Old House" installed for a viewer -- a huge water-bed like rubber bladder measuring around 10x14x3 feet, hidden under the backyard deck. The bladder they installed was custom made to fit under that specific deck and smaller than the off-the-shelf 5,000 and 10,000 gal version, but still about 50 times as useful as a rain-barrel.

Something like that would be hard to keep filled in this climate, but in yours, you'd still need the overflow vent even for the bigger versions.

Houses in some places used to be built with cisterns in or under the basement and architecture routinely fed rainwater from most of the property into cisterns as a primary consideration. Perhaps building codes in drought-prone regions (especially those suffering 'drought' primarily because of over-population) should require cisterns for non-potable water uses -- landscaping, laundry, sewage, etc and raise the price of municipal potable water supplies to compete with bottled water.

 

[glynndah]

When I began typing "average rainfall for Illinois", Google autocorrected it to "average penile length" and I decided it was better to let some things remain unknown.

 

[mynameisben]

When I began typing "average rainfall for Illinois", Google autocorrected it to "average penile length" and I decided it was better to let some things remain unknown.

And the local weatherman predicted there would be intermittent spurts of rain.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

We recently built a desal plant and a 150 acre reservoir. We have an abundance of water we cant use because legal water use is determined by rainfall. So we have a bizarre situation where the water authority wants more consumption yet fines greater consumption. And the agency cant get its mind right on the subject.

 

[oggbashan]

Locally the average annual rainfall is 22 inches but 2010 was wetter than normal at about 28 inches.

I store rainwater for gardening and washing the car, windows etc. My current storage capacity is 2,550 litres and I will be increasing it this year by another 450 litres. It takes me about 2.5 years to save the capital cost of the water storage barrels because my water supply is metered. If it wasn't, I wouldn't make any saving at all because the charges would be based on the value of the house.

The sewage charges are based on a assumption that 95% of the water coming in also goes out.

Og

 

[Handley_Page]

Round my way, surface water does not enter the main sewage system (this may be one reason why we seldom have trouble in drought conditions).

Question, thought, to the Treasure Coast and similar residents. What happens to the water from the washing up or the shower?. Put it on the garden ? It's being tried in the UK.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I collect rainwater for the garden.

What my dad did was run the washing machine waste water outside to the backyard for irrigation. The grass didnt care about soap and chemicals.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Okay so I'm a bit on the Geek side at times. Out of curiousity I started keeping track of the rainfall here where I live by month.

Last Year we received a total of 43.10 inches of rain. (And now we're in drought conditions.)

Cat

We received 60.11 inches last year, but that was due to a wetter than average January, February and March. The rest of the year was well below average.

 

[JustaSCOUNDREL]

Sea Cat,

For all the rain you need to complain to El Nino (With an accent mark over the second n)

This year feel free to register your protest with La Nina (Same accent mark)

If you need more rain you might talk to Queensland in Australia. They are well over their ass in excess rain.

I hope this does not sound snarky because it is not intended that way. It is just the weather patterns. Surprisingly caused by upwelling currents in the South Pacific.

In 2009 Phoenix received only about 3.5" of rain about 5" below normal. I can't find any data on 2010 but I think we may have had about normal rainfall. This year we may get shorted again.

The U.S. Southwest has been in a major drought for over 10 years.

Hang in there pal the weather will change. It always does.

Mike C.