The Southeast Regional Climate Center Annual Climate Summary for the Southeast United States reported that 2013 was
the wettest year on record in Asheville, NC, and the wettest summer on record in the Southeast.
These impacts are part of a wider trend of more extreme weather (for example: California had the second
wettest year on record in 2016 - 2017), for which we will need to plan and adapt.
This was the 24th
wettest year on record.
The state experienced its worst drought in over a millennium from 2012 to 2016, followed immediately by
its wettest year on record in 2017.
The wettest year on record for Alaska occurred in 1928 with 43.54 inches of precipitation.
This was the third
wettest year on record.
Florida did have a wetter than normal winter this year, and its southern tip had
its wettest year on record.
The flooding continued the heavy precipitation trend of 2010, which was
the wettest year on record.
Brokaw: Last year was also
the wettest year on record.
After years of drought, much of the state is now experiencing one of
its wettest years on record.
Following the two
wettest years on record (2010 and 2011), 2012 saw near average precipitation on balance across the globe.
Not exact matches
Compounding matters, the country endured unusually high rainfalls this
year, including the
wettest April
on record.
It has been an unusual summer... first the cold
wet start of it and then the heat and then storms... seems I had to run around and unplug everything every week or so... just disruptive to our regular routine... but we got the hay up without a drop of rain
on it... so our
record is now 5
years in a row of putting up good hay.
• British quartetof runners doggedly circled
wet track
on blustery day at Walton -
on - Thames, England, broke unofficial world
record set 20
years ago by Argentina's JoseRibas for distance covered in two hours.
This past winter, a few places in the Northwest (notably Seattle and Portland) had their
wettest winter
on record, so it's easy to forget our region was in a severe drought at this time last
year.
It was the 11th
wettest April
on record and
wettest April in 25
years for the state.
The United Kingdom observed 1289 mm of total rainfall
on average during 2015, marking its sixth
wettest year in the 116 -
year period of
record.
Whether this is good news or bad news depends
on where you are: For Californians, the prospect of a top - tier El Niño boosts the hopes for a &
wetter - than - average winter, which is desperately needed after four
years of
record - setting drought.
The three brides of Dracula — Trekker -
wet dream Jeri Ryan, Esposito, and alt - pop
recording star Vitamin C (Colleen Fitzpatrick)-- gear all of their snarky come -
ons to the easily - aroused thirteen -
year - old boy set and remain, to a one, modestly covered.
Bertone's Bet: Arnolt MG TD — Jeroen Booij tells the story of how the ailing Turin coachbuilder was saved by an unlikely alliance with an extrovert American businessman / Brighton Run 2014 — David Burgess-Wise reports from another
wet London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, focussing
on the many «new» entries that appeared this
year / Amilcar's jewel: the C0 and C6, part one — Simon Moore begins his treatise
on the famous six - cylinder racers of the»20s, looking this time at their competition
record / Killed by the War: the Marshall Arter — Michael Worthington - Williams delves into his archives to research the Marshall Arter cyclecar and its spring - drive arrangement / Back
on the Road — Michael Ware visits a 1930 Austin Seven Swallow saloon, the subject of a long restoration undertaken by two separate custodians
With hurricane Arthur headlining the news as throwing a possible
wet blanket
on 4th of July fireworks shows along the Northeast coast and with a new
record being set each passing day for the longest period between major (Category 3 or greater) hurricane landfalls anywhere in the U.S. (3,173 days and counting), we thought that now would be a good time to discuss a new paper which makes a tentative forecast as to what we can expect in terms of the number of Atlantic hurricanes in the near future (next 3 - 5
years).
These events included historic droughts in East Africa, the southern United States and northern Mexico; an above - average tropical cyclone season in the North Atlantic hurricane basin and a below - average season in the eastern North Pacific; and the
wettest two -
year period (2010 — 2011)
on record in Australia.
Observational
records show that anthropogenic - influenced climate change has already had a profound impact
on global and U.S. warm season climate over the past 30
years, and there is increasing contrast between geographic regions that are climatologically
wet and dry - the hypothesis that the «
wet gets
wetter, dry gets drier» is seen in a new paper by Chang et al..
They have a better
record of accuracy than official long term forecasts, Consider the UKMO seasonal inaccuracies over the last many
years, most recently the prediction of a dry winter in 2013 in one of the
wettest on record.
California has now seen more moisture in the last 8 weeks than it typically does in an entire
year... San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and several other cities have
recorded one of their
wettest Januarys
on record and an incredibly
wet 8 weeks overall.
The first kind of precipitation whiplash is from
year to
year, meaning that we'll see more extraordinarily dry
years followed by incredibly
wet years — in the way California's five -
year drought ended in 2017 in one of the
wettest winters
on record.
The decade just ended was the warmest since systematic recordkeeping began, in 18800; the
year just ended was tied (with 2005) for the warmest
on record, and it was the
wettest.
If California receives at least average precipitation for the rest of the season, 2016 - 2017 will become the state's
wettest Water
Year on record.