The AccuWeather.com Long-Range Forecasting Team still expects a stormy winter for the U.S. with the worst in terms of snow and cold targeting the Midwest and interior Northwest. Read the article here>>>
Ohio State Yearly Precipitation Record Unofficially Broken
After the two days of heavy rainfall in early December…and a year
that has seen abnormally high rainfall across the state of Ohio
(particularly the southwestern portion)…several observing sites
have surpassed the record for highest yearly precipitation
total in Ohio. Read more here>>>
New MODERN rainfall record set, “officially”
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!”