by Barney Leach
May rainfall came in slightly above normal at 4.82 inches. Normal rainfall for May is 4.59 inches. We had seven days with measurable rainfall with a greatest one-day total of 1.22 inches on May 11. Our total for the year now stands at 23.13 inches. Normal through May is 19.20 inches.
May temperatures were fairly normal with a high of 94 degrees on May 27 and a low of 47 degrees on May 6.
2017 RAINFALL BY MONTH
Month Rainfall (inches) Normal Departure
January 5.75 3.62 +2.13
February 3.25 3.36 -0.11
March 4.25 4.33 -0.08
April 5.06 3.30 +1.76
May 4.82 4.59 +0.23
June 0 0 0
July 0 0 0
August 0 0 0
September 0 0 0
October 0 0 0
November 0 0 0
Totals 23.13 19.20 +3.93
LOOKING AHEAD TO JUNE: June is normally our fourth wettest month of the year with 4.03 inches of rain; and our third hottest month.
We will be seeing hotter temperatures in June with highs mainly in the 90’s. Looking back over the past 23 years however, we had triple-digit temperatures in June of 1998 and 2011.
We had 44 triple –digit temperature days in 1998 and 66 in 2011 for a total of 110 one hundred degree plus days for those two years. With that in mind, let us hope we don’t have any triple-digit days in June this year.
The above rainfall and temperature data was recorded by Barney Leach, former volunteer co-op weather observer for the National Weather Service and former weather volunteer for Channel 8 in Dallas, Channel 10 in Waco, and radio station KNES in Fairfield.
