Wettest year on record locally

[elainegrey]

It's the wettest year on record! ..., and we are at 59.2" of liquid precip. And we still have a few days to go in 2018... #ncwx
— Don Schwenneker (@BigweatherABC11) December 28, 2018

Well, this makes me very glad i got my rain gauge in March. Since i began keeping records on March 11, i've measured 63.06" of precipitation - that's more even without the precipitation of January and February. I'd been suspicious that where i was is wetter than at the airport and now i know we are.

I am glad we got the rain "garden" in this year: i would imagine that we would wash our driveway away if the roof run off had been pouring down it. At this point, the garden is just rain earthworks, a square basin with three raised areas to force the water to take a sinuous route to the overflow. I hope i get plants from the seeding.

Everything outside is like a wet sponge. Ugh

Well, all this rain should stop when i get the rain tank catchment set up and my sister gets her rain gauge up.

Skimming the headlines about the record wet year i read that last year was the warmest on record for North Carolina. Here's hoping to less exciting years to come (although i don't expect that to be the case unless the US & China get serious about restricting carbon emissions).

Comments

[zlabya]

I'd be annoyed at all the wetness but I have waterproof garden clogs and the recent rains means I don't have to worry about my lilac (which is down to almost nothing due to a nasty mildew but still hanging in) or hydrangea getting enough winter water.

[elainegrey]

I think some of the grass i planted is dying and i'm worried about the just planted trees drowning in standing water at the bottoms of their holes. I'd feel pretty confident we'd done OK with the diffing except the ground is so completely saturated now....

I'm glad you aren't quite at the same level of saturation!