100 Dry Days
Thursday January 26, 2006
If it doesn't rain today, Thursday, which I guess it won't, that means that we haven't had any measurable rain in Phoenix for 100 days. The last rainfall at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport was on October 18th. That's nice for winter visitors, but it's bad for Phoenix. No rain means that we'll have a drier summer, with significantly higher risks of wildfires. No rain up north means no snow skiing season for that area, where the economy depends on it, and no snow melt to fill our reservoirs. The record for consecutive days without rain in Phoenix is 101, last set in 2000. Looks like we'll break that record if we don't get rain by Saturday night.
Maybe it will help if I wash my car tomorrow.
Wet Tidbits
- Most rain: 1905 with 19.7 inches of rain for the year. (I don't remember that one.)
- Least rain: 2002, with 2.8 inches of rain for the year.
- Average rainfall in a year: 8.29 inches
- Rain in 2005: 7.04 inches, with most of it falling in January and February.
Comments
this is so dumb. no rain? arizona? who woulda guessed? duh no rain its like so dry hear from the westerlies hitting us and the moutains on tha opposite side of us getting all tha rain tha clouds dump it all there because tha wind and clouds cant all get through tha rocky and other moutains to get here in az. its logic
I know we had a winter (rainy) day in Phoenix,Az ain 2006, and I am pretty sure was sometime in mid-March 2006.
Can someone help me out here with the date?? Please. I cannnot seem to get this info on the weather website since tha last update seems to be sometime in Jan 2006. Thanks for your help on this date.
Sincerely, Nancy
This might help:
http://somuchsilence.blogspot.com/2006/03/sunday-grab-bag-rain-at-last.html