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Robert W Greif
Posted 12/10/2015 03:07 (#4950321 - in reply to #4949455)
Subject: Dallas County Iowa - Month by Month - Rain by Rain



Dallas Center IA 515-720-2463
A year so far total of 962.2 mm See 'Year Total' in image below. Rain box.
That is 37.9" for those of you that cannot see the light of day and your rains come in inches, half inches, quarter inches, tenths, hundreds, etc, etc, etc.

A neighbor with a Davis system has a year total of 42.41"

January
.3 mm about Jan 18
3.3 mm about Jan 25
Winter and snow do not record very well. A long ways from on the money

February
5.1 mm Feb 1
3.6 mm Feb 6
.3 mm Feb 7

Dates can be hard to pin point. Could be off one day either way.

March
.3 mm Mar 3
.3 mm Mar 22
4.1 mm Mar 24
.5 mm Mar 28

April There were 13 rain events in April. So will list only the bigger ones.
13.2 mm Apr 4
15.7 mm Apr 18
13.2 mm Apr 20
6.3 mm Apr 25

For May there was a lot of rain events. The four chart peaks are-
18.5 mm May 14
24.6 mm May 19
29.7 mm May 24
19.8 mm May 26

June was wet. The big ones only
33 mm Jun 4
25.1 mm Jun 7
26.2 mm Jun 12
34.3 mm Jun 16
125.2 mm Jun 25
16.5 mm Jun 28

Big ones for July
56.6 mm Jul 6
8.1 mm Jul 16
54.6 mm Jul 28

Keep raining in August, Big ones only
41.7 mm on the 18th
14.2 mm Aug 22
18 mm Aug 26

September and getting time to get the crop in. But still raining. Bigger ones.
18.8 Sep 2
22.4 Sep 9
46.5 Sep 17
14.7 Sep 19
22.9 Sep 23
I told my renters to get a Lexion

Oct was a lot better. The first 21 days were pretty much rain free. Whole lot of crop came out of the field in that time.
Big rains late in Oct
10.3 Oct 23
10.2 again Oct 27

The crop was pretty much in the bin in Dallas County Iowa by Nov 1
Big Nov rains
15 - Nov 12
9.4 - Nov 17
18 - Nov 26

For Dec the dry spell has set in. But then snow and my gauge do not get along.
1 mm on Dec 2
3 mm on Dec 4

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Edited by Robert W Greif 12/10/2015 03:18
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