Goodbye Super Rainy July!

Today is the last day of July 2017, which will go down as one of the wettest months in Central Ohio's history. The rain that fell this month was locally heavy. So much so that there's almost a 4" difference in how much rain fell at my house and how much fell at the airport... a mere 12 mile difference.

If the NWS used the total for Canal Winchester, then this month would have been the wettest month in history for Columbus. The current record is 12.36" in July of 1992. As of now I have recorded 12.87" of rain. The airport has only picked up 8.55" of rain. I'm also at 31.82" for the year so far which would put us on pace for a top 10 wettest years.

This map is the most telling of how wet it's been, showing a good portion of Central Ohio was 200-300% of normal precip for the month!

Looking back at 1992 when we had our previous wettest month, the rest of the year was pretty dry. We ended up with a little over 38" of rain for the year and the rest of the months were at or below normal for precip. But just for fun I checked, and the winter of '92-'93 also had 30" of snow. So... there's that! Do not take that as a direct correlation to our wet month, just a fun observation.

Now our pattern is changing again to a cooler and drier August. Will that hold up?