{"id":38134,"date":"2015-05-27T16:14:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T23:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/?p=38134"},"modified":"2016-01-22T14:15:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T21:15:30","slug":"may-unusually-wet-despite-four-year-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2015\/05\/27\/may-unusually-wet-despite-four-year-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"May unusually wet  despite four-year drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38135\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38135\" src=\"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/weather.jpg\" alt=\"Early Friday morning, heavy fog made Highway 243 barely visible and slowed traffic all over the Hill. Photo by Gallagher Goodland\" width=\"720\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/weather.jpg 720w, https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/weather-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/weather-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early Friday morning, heavy fog made Highway 243 barely visible and slowed traffic all over the Hill.<br \/>Photo by Gallagher Goodland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2015, local residents are hoping that May showers may bring June flowers. This has been one of the wettest Mays in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Through this weekend, the U.S. Forest Service\u2019s Keenwild Ranger Station has recorded 2.7 inches of rain for May, including a half-inch from Friday through Sunday. Pine Cove received about 0.3 inches during this period also totaling 2.7 inches in May. The long-term average for May is only three-quarters of an inch but in 2015, the fourth year of a statewide drought, the Hill has received almost four times the normal precipitation.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, both areas are still below the long-term average for rainfall from July 1 through May 31, which is 25.5 inches. Keenwild\u2019s total this rain year is 13.15 inches, while Pine Cove\u2019s total is 20.5 inches. The Idyllwild Fire Station reports 19.8 inches of rain through May.<\/p>\n<p>Unless June is as unusually wet as May was, 2014-15 is the third consecutive year of below-average rain on the Hill, and the ninth year in the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>National Weather Service Meteorologist Alex Tardy reported that the \u201cpast 48 months through April have been the driest in California. We\u2019re missing 28 inches [of rain] across the state.\u201d In Idyllwild, the four-year rain deficit now totals 41.2 inches or the equivalent of one-and-half rain seasons.<\/p>\n<p>NWS still expects an El Ni\u00f1o to strengthen during the summer and maintain into winter, Tardy said. In fact, from July through September, the Hill might experience above-average monsoonal activity.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the recent wet and cool weather, he reported that the past year, \u201cMay through April is still running record warmth. March average 8.2 degrees above normal\u201d and the higher temperatures may continue even if an El Ni\u00f1o condition forms, Tardy added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, local residents are hoping that May showers may bring June flowers. This has been one of the wettest Mays in decades. Through this weekend, the U.S. Forest Service\u2019s Keenwild Ranger Station has recorded 2.7 inches of rain for May, including a half-inch from Friday through Sunday. Pine Cove received about 0.3 inches during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>May unusually wet despite four-year drought &#8226; Idyllwild Town Crier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2015\/05\/27\/may-unusually-wet-despite-four-year-drought\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"JP Crumrine\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2015\/05\/27\/may-unusually-wet-despite-four-year-drought\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2015\/05\/27\/may-unusually-wet-despite-four-year-drought\/\",\"name\":\"May unusually wet despite four-year drought &#8226; 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