Annual and YTD Precipitation Data Confirm the Truth and a Lie About Our Weather - Granite Grok

Annual and YTD Precipitation Data Confirm the Truth and a Lie About Our Weather

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According to NOAA, the one-hundred-year average precipitation for “New Hampshire” is 44.3 inches. Also, according to NOAA, as of today, New Hampshire has received over 38 inches of precipitation in 2021. That’s 87% of our annual “rainfall,” and it’s barely mid-July.

Drought, What Drought?

The data below is from “NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Climate at a Glance: Statewide Time Series, published July 2021, retrieved on July 13, 2021, from https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/.”

Related: MSM Headline: “Will Heavy Rain” … “Impact Drought”?

The black arrow shows the 120-year mean precipitation for New Hampshire as 44.3 in.  The green arrow is the 2021 total today (and yes, it is still raining where I am as I type this). [The blue line is the trend from 1901-2021.]

 

NH Precip 2021 to date June

 

 

That is the truth. So what about the lie (or the mistake)? I took a swing over to Rainfall.willyweather.com (which says it gets its data from NOAA).

Here’s what I found

The YTD for 2021 is close to the numbers from NOAA.gov (38.8 in. vs. 38.18 in.), but the Annual average 2010-present they are reporting 87.5 Inches annually or 8.1 inches monthly?

Anyone who relied on this would think, no wonder they are reporting a drought! That’s a lot of rain and snow, but it is completely wrong. The number 87.5 is closer to the 2-year (24-month) figure for the 120-year average, which according to NOAA, is 88.64.

So! Do you remember last year’s drought? It only happened on paper or in the paper or on TV or at a selectman’s meeting just like every year because yelling Ddought in a state that’s getting the same or more rain year after year is not against the law.

Also, please remember that this is the statewide average, so your community may have experienced more or less rain than precipitation than this data reports, maybe even one of those flash droughts they invented!

You know, when it isn’t raining and rains less than that or something.

And yes, 87.5 inches annually is a mistake or an oversight. The one-year average in New Hampshire is 44.3 inches.

Related: Drought Fearmongering vs. Tropical Storm Fearmongering – Fight!

But if it matters, the annual average using their timescale (2010-present) is only 47.4 inches. Not even close. I sent them a message alerting them to the issue.

I do not believe there was malice involved, but as long as it’s wrong, anyone citing that for reporting purposes will make a mess of things.

 

Drought, What Drought?

As for the drought, it has been wetter around these parts since the abandoned Global cooling for invented Global Warming. As I noted here, it looks more like solar activity than human activity, but there are many other moving parts, none of them human.

And we’ve had drier years. A drought would make perfect sense to lean us back toward the mean or even lower given the history.

And, yes, July has been wetter (so far), and that has helped. But we need to remember that this discussion is not about the actual whether or the national weather (above average wetness so far 2021, btw) or even the global weather; it is about politics.

Wherever the weather meets the narrative, it’s proof, and where it does not, it is conspiracy or denialism.

No, it is not this wet everywhere in New Hampshire, but the state average is 87% on the way to our 100-year average annual rainfall, so you know what that means? If that keeps up, it may be time to change the narrative.

It’s not a drought we’ve caused with our loose living and fossil-fuel energy lifestyles but a deluge. Mark my words, that will be the new messaging, and it is still all your fault.

It is your fault you are not lining up behind the Marxists demanding a command-and-control economy managed from Concord, Distant DC, or worse, The Hauge.

They have and will continue to lie to you to get there from here, even if it means changing what the meaning of “drought” is to get you in line.

And that almost looks like what’s going on here now.

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