Now wouldn’t it be nice and gentleman-like if Oklahoma would share with Alabama.
Scroll down below this Special Statement from NWS/Oklahoma City and see how they accumulated this excess rain amount even earlier in the year:
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1045 AM CST MON OCT 15 2007
OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-160100-
1045 AM CST MON OCT 15 2007
..CLIMATE STATISTICS FOR OKLAHOMA CITY
THE ALL-TIME ANNUAL PRECIPITATION RECORD AT WILL ROGERS WORLD AIRPORT
WAS SHATTERED YESTERDAY, OCTOBER 14TH, AFTER 1.40 INCHES OF RAIN WAS
MEASURED. THE RECORD IS JUST ONE OF SEVERAL RECORDS THAT HAVE BEEN
BROKEN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. BELOW IS A LIST OF MANY MONTHLY AND SEASONAL
PRECIPITATION TOTALS AND THEIR RANKING. ALL PRECIPITATION RECORDS HAVE
BEEN UPDATED AS OF SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14TH. THIS LIST WILL CONTINUE TO BE
UPDATED THROUGH THE END OF THE YEAR.
2007 PRECIPITATION TOTAL THROUGH OCT 14: 53.34 INCHES
1971-2000 AVERAGE ANNUAL PRECIPITATION: 35.85 INCHES
DIFFERENCE: +17.49
RANK: 1ST …/1908 52.03 INCHES/
OCTOBER 2007 PRECIPITATION TOTAL THROUGH OCT 14: 2.65 INCHES
OCTOBER AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 3.64 INCHES
DIFFERENCE: -0.99
RANK: 47TH
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MONTHLY TOTALS EARLIER IN THE YEAR:
8.02 in March
8.49 May
10.06 June
6.31 July
5.39 August
7.15 September
Average Annual Rain amount for Oklahoma City is about 35 inches
For Birmingham, around 54 inches.
They have almost received the Birmingham annual amount.
They are 23.32 inches ahead for 2007 so far.
They have received 30 inches more than Birmingham so far this year.
There is an old saying’ “all is not fair in love, war and weather.”
