Record September Rainfall @ West Palm Beach.

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Record September Rainfall @ West Palm Beach.

#1 Postby TampaFl » Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:50 pm

:eek: :eek: WOW, that is a alot of rain for 1 month.

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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...UPDATED TO CORRECT SEPTEMBER RAINFALL
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
915 AM EDT WED OCT 06 2004

...ALL TIME MONTHLY RAINFALL RECORD AT WEST PALM BEACH...

THE TOTAL RAINFALL FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER AT WEST PALM BEACH
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WAS 29.40 INCHES...WHICH IS A RECORD TOTAL FOR
ANY MONTH IN THE WEST PALM BEACH AREA SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1897.
THE PREVIOUS MONTHLY RAINFALL RECORD OF 24.86 INCHES WAS SET IN
SEPTEMBER 1960. THE 29.40 INCHES IS MORE THAN TRIPLE THE NORMAL
AMOUNT OF 8.10 INCHES FOR THE MONTH AND IS NEARLY 50 PERCENT OF THE
ANNUAL AVERAGE RAINFALL OF 60.04 INCHES.

NEARLY 23 INCHES OF THE MONTHLY TOTAL WERE DIRECTLY ATTRIBUTABLE TO
HURRICANES FRANCES AND JEANNE. HURRICANE FRANCES CAUSED 13.56
INCHES OF RAIN ON SEPTEMBER 3-5 WHILE HURRICANE JEANNE CAUSED
ANOTHER 9.10 INCHES ON SEPTEMBER 25 AND 26.

AT LEAST A TRACE OF RAIN FELL ON 26 DAYS IN SEPTEMBER WITH MORE THAN
ONE INCH OF RAIN ON 8 DAYS. THE MAXIMUM 24 HOUR RAINFALL WAS 8.79
INCHES ON SEPTEMBER 26.




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#2 Postby Scorpion » Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:47 pm

Wow, half of the rainfall of a typical year fell in September!
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#3 Postby fci » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:42 pm

And more heavy rain to start October.
Both Satruday night and tonight
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#4 Postby Brent » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:57 pm

Was there any rain NOT from a tropical system? There wasn't here(although we only ended up with a modest 7" from Frances and Ivan)
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#5 Postby SouthernWx » Wed Oct 06, 2004 11:02 pm

It was the same way throughout much of Georgia....Atlanta recorded the 2nd most September rainfall amount ever....over 13.50". Macon and Athens, Georgia both set new rainfall records for the month of September.

At my home west of Atlanta, "only" 8.11" fell during September, but that's still almost three times normal...as September is normally a very dry month in the Atlanta area. All except 0.50" can be attributed to the nearby passage of Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne.

My dad lives about 25 miles to my south (near Newnan, Georgia), and his gauge recorded 16.52" during September (or nearly 500% of normal)....6.63" courtesy of Frances, 5.85" from Ivan, and 3.48" as Jeanne passed to the southeast.
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#6 Postby weatherlover427 » Thu Oct 07, 2004 2:06 am

Holy crud that is a lot of rain for any month, anywhere. :eek: Can't imagine how wet it must be down there right now...
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#7 Postby The Big Dog » Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:02 am

Joshua21Young wrote:Holy crud that is a lot of rain for any month, anywhere. :eek: Can't imagine how wet it must be down there right now...

Well, right now, just a quarter-inch of rain could cause some serious street flooding in some places.

Also, Lake Okeechobee is nearly 2 1/2 feet above normal. 17.86 feet, which is pretty high. Last time it got that high, they released about two feet (and then we had a drought). It's been above 18 feet in the past, but I'm not sure at what point it gets critical.
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#8 Postby KWT » Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:44 am

cor and I thought that us in the U.K had a very wet August.
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