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NOAA's March rap up is out... highlights

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:06 am
by CHRISTY
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2612.htm

SOME EAST COAST STATES HAVE DRIEST MARCH EVER, SEVERE DROUGHT CONTINUES IN SOUTHWEST, SOUTHERN PLAINS, RECORD RAINFALL IN HAWAII...
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Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:05 am
by Jim Cantore
reminds me that we didn't even have an inch of rain

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:11 am
by jusforsean
Just curious what it looked like for 2005 which were the record driest? I tried to look for it but i duuno? I always hear that if we have a bad rainy season it doesnt look good for hurricanes?

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:15 am
by SouthFloridawx
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories200 ... il2005.jpg

April of 2005

let me see if i can find march

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:22 am
by BayouVenteux
The only reason Louisiana isn't a darker hue on that map is due to the northern half of the state getting in on rains from the tail ends of systems that stayed well to our north.

Anywhere south of Bunkie is parched!

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:29 am
by CrazyC83
BayouVenteux wrote:The only reason Louisiana isn't a darker hue on that map is due to the northern half of the state getting in on rains from the tail ends of systems that stayed well to our north.

Anywhere south of Bunkie is parched!


Too bad you couldn't store Katrina's excess water...

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:00 pm
by terstorm1012
It was very dry in the East last spring as well.

All our rain fell in October.

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:01 pm
by SouthFloridawx
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Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:43 pm
by cycloneye
Christy I moved this thread to the USA Weather Forum where this theme belongs.

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:46 pm
by cctxhurricanewatcher
Texas had near normal precip???? Where? At one NWS observation center in the middle of no where?