March and April - CAE ranks in top 5 driest months ...

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...ANOTHER DRY MONTH ACROSS THE MIDLANDS...

THE MONTHLY TOTAL AT THE COLUMBIA METRO AIRPORT FOR APRIL WAS
0.78 INCHES...WHICH IS 2.20 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. NORMAL
PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL IS 2.98 INCHES.
THIS TIES THE 5TH DRIEST APRIL ON RECORD, ALSO SET IN THE YEAR 1910.

THIS DRY TREND CONTINUES A STRING OF BELOW NORMAL RAINFALL FOR THE
PAST SEVERAL MONTHS. FIVE OUT OF THE PAST SEVEN MONTHS HAVE RECORDED
BELOW NORMAL RAINFALL BEGINNING WITH NOVEMBER 2003.

THE PREVIOUS MONTH OF MARCH WAS ALSO VERY DRY. THE RAINFALL AMOUNT
FOR MARCH WAS A MERE 0.87 INCHES...WHICH TIED THE FOURTH PLACE
RECORD PREVIOUSLY SET IN THE YEAR 1925.

SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR 2004 COLUMBIA METRO AIRPORT HAS
RECEIVED 7.61 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION. THIS IS 8.46 INCHES BELOW
NORMAL. NORMAL YEARLY PRECIPITATION FROM JANUARY THROUGH APRIL
SHOULD BE 16.07 INCHES.

PRECIPITATION RECORDS FOR THE COLUMBIA AREA BEGAN IN THE YEAR 1878.

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On the flip side ... CHS recorded a record MAX daily rainfall on the last day of April ...

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RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
210 AM EDT SAT MAY 1 2004

...RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM RAINFALL SET AT THE CHARLESTON AIRPORT AND
DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON ON FRIDAY...

A RECORD RAINFALL OF 1.13 INCHES WAS SET AT CHARLESTON AIRPORT
FRIDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 0.62 SET IN 1976. A RECORD
RAINFALL OF 1.13 INCHES WAS ALSO SET DOWNTOWN...BREAKING THE OLD
RECORD OF 0.50 SET IN 1976.

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