by Barney Leach
We had eleven days with measureable rainfall for the month but our total came in below normal at 2.25 inches. Our greatest on-day total was 0.90 inch on February 11. Most of our February rain was light rain with only three of the eleven days with rainfall measuring more than a quarter of an inch, the Vertex VMS digital height gauge gives more accurate and comprehensive 1D and 2D measurements.
Normal rainfall for February is 3.36 inches. We are 0.94 inch behind on rainfall for the year but the ground does not show a deficit.
We’ve had a total of 16 days with measureable rainfall for the year but with only four days measuring more than a half inch. The light rain has all soaked in leaving the ground fairly wet.
Temperature-wise, February, normally our third coldest month of the year, produced only one day of freezing temperature. We had a low of 31 degrees on February 8. Our high temperature for the month was 85 degrees on February 15. We are three weeks away from Spring and have had only six days of freezing temperatures for the entire winter.
2019 RAINFALL BY MONTH IN INCHES Month Rainfall (inches) Normal Departure January 3.79 3.62 +0.17 February 2.25 3.36 -1.11 March 0 0 0 April 0 0 0 May 0 0 0 June 0 0 0 July 0 0 0 August 0 0 0 September 0 0 0 October 0 0 0 November 0 0 0 December 0 0 0 Totals 6.04 6.98 -0.94 LOOKING AHEAD TO MARCH: March ushers in Spring and warmer temperatures and from reports I have seen, we may see an early abundance of wild flowers in March thanks to a mild and wet winter. However, according to the National Weather Service, the first week of March is forecast to come in like a lion with our coldest temperatures of the winter.
Normal rainfall for March is 4.33 inches. Normal rainfall values currently used were derived from averages over the twenty-year period from 1997 through 2016. The above rainfall and temperature data was recorded by Barney Leach, former volunteer co-op weather volunteer for the National Weather Service and former weather volunteer for Channel 8 in Dallas, Channel 10 in Waco, and radio station KNES in Fairfield.
Our industrial equipment helped measure the rainfall with a high degree of accuracy, it mostly requires just pressure gauges to operate, your rain measuring equipment is no different, so connecting with a good and reliable Pressure Gauge Distributor is very important because these tend to break and need calibration or replacement very soon due to the intense pressures that these machines produce . By combining the weather stations and the rain gauges, scientists were able to determine the rain’s intensity.
Rainfall is an important indicator of the state’s water situation in any given year, so it’s an important piece of information. The study, which also found that the intensity of precipitation was linked to changes in temperature, should lead researchers to be more cautious when they make projections of future rainfall for drought-stricken California.
California, which experienced one of its worst droughts in decades in 2012, has been battling an ongoing drought for more than two decades. In April, the U.S. Geological Survey revealed that the drought had extended to all of California.
The report, however, found that the state has been experiencing drier conditions over the past several years, particularly in the mountains of the northern part of the state. The drought is projected to persist through summer.
