End Of Rain Season - First Day Of Meteorological Spring

March 1^st is the first day of Meteorological Spring.  Spring sure sounds nice, doesn’t it?  So today I am closing the books on February.  This “should” be the end of the theoretical “Rain Season” for us.  Traditionally for our area this is defined as the 4 month period from November through February. 

Uhmmm…  I think we can easily define this last 4 months as a RAIN season all in CAPS…..   There are some pretty remarkable numbers…
 

After last night’s little deluge, we ended up with 20.22” of rain in the last four months.   That is more rain than we had in the FULL YEAR (12 Months) of 2008 and 2013.  My data only goes back 12 years, but there are still some interesting numbers here.  Below is a bar graph of the last 12 “Rain Seasons”.

As you can see, the last 3 Rain Seasons have been pretty hefty…   On a side note, the 2006/2007 was the period including the Hanukkah  Eve storm.  That period we had some record rains for November (9.78”) and December (6.11”) …. 

If we sort this and put it into a matrix, it really shows the magnitude of this past four months and how the last few years have been pretty wet.

On a brighter note….  Let’s enjoy the first day of Meteorological Spring!  This video taken this morning.... :)