Officially, the National Weather Service recorded that we surpassed the all time annual rainfall record today. Certainly, officially, we did brak the record set during modern record keeping. However, my total is still shy of 56 inches at Cheviot 0.9 SSE. Also, Professor Thomas Schmidlin in his book Thunder In The Heartland records on page 163 that 72 inches of rain fell at the College Hill observatory in 1880. Before modern records, I know, but interesting!
This from the National Weather Service last evening: “Cincinnati has now set a new record for its wettest year in recorded history. With the Cincinnati/Northern KY Int’l Airport having picked up around a third of an inch of rain so far this evening, 2011 has now surpassed 1990 to make this the wettest year in Cincinnati since precipitation records began in 1871. As of 10 pm, the yearly precipitation total at CVG was 57.68 inches. The old record from 1990 was 57.58 inches. With two more months to go, this record precipitation amount will continue to rise!”