In Apple Valley, Ca, our Average Annual Rainfall is 4.44 inches. So far it has been pretty wet, with a rainfall to date of 2.69 inches. Our Mojave River runs underground most of the year, with some surface water visible during rainy periods, not more than a few inches deep. This is The Desert, my friends! Hal
@Hal Pollner Surprised, that you are in San Berdoo County! I did some snooping, since your precip number is less than ours, similar desert, except we are at 550 ft. altitude, should have less than you do, ours is listed at 6.1 inches. I came up with this chart: The poor quality stems from taking image off my screen by photograph, then stored, could not print or copy directly from their website. The pix of the city look beautiful! Weather Service annual chart totals 6.6" for you guys, 6.1" for us; statistics are kept by bean counters, as you well know! Most of our friends here on SOF likely cannot imagine having only 6 inches rainfall per year! OTOH, we can't imagine withstanding those cold winters back east! Our average annual temperature here is 74.5` F. Frank
@Hal Pollner Yes, 3000 is decidedly a better compromise, frost possible for short times in Winter, average 10 degrees lower in Summer, than where we are; that's very similar to Kingman, AZ, only 30 miles east of us, 3100 ft. Frank
Houston, TX 49.77" The climate of Houston is classified as humid subtropical climate, with tropical influences. August normally ranks as the warmest month at 84.6 °F (29.2 °C) and January the coldest month at 53.1 °F (11.7 °C). The normal annual precipitation measures 49.77 inches (1,264 mm). I think we got most of it last night.
50 inches Climate in Clarksville, Arkansas. Clarksville, Arkansas gets 50 inches of rain, on average, per year. The US average is 38 inches of rain per year.
Annual high temperature: 51.7 F Annual low temperature: 21.2 F Average temperature: 41.45 F Average annual precipitation - rainfall: 42.36 inch
Norman"s avg. is 38.9 annually. This year is wetter and we're going to be higher unless a drought comes along.
We get 33 inches on average per year but got only 26 inches last year (which felt like a desert) and 18 inches to date.
@Thomas Stearn Gee, if 26 felt like a desert, try Death Valley, California @ ~ 3.5 inches!! We here in the Desert have come to greatly appreciate those infrequent excursions of excess where much greater than average amounts of rain fall! We also greatly relish those sudden desert showers which seem to emerge out of nowhere, suddenly cooling and making a blisteringly hot day wonderfully tolerable! In short, we have learned to really appreciate the rain! Frank
So have we. My reference to the desert was, of course, a tongue-in-cheek remark of mine. But the climatic change due to global warming over here is just frightening. We are not used to it and are definitely not prepared. These pics show what nature looked like as early as in mid-summer last year which was quite unusual not to say catastrophic. I was gonna ask you, and Hal perhaps, how water supply is organised where you live? Is the supply constant or is it suspended sometimes given that there is so little rain? Is there a pipe system and is the pressure high enough for washing machines? I can only hope that my questions are not too naive and provoking. They just show that I don't know the first thing about it and that I'm genuinely interested.
Ha, incredible!! England has the largely undeserved reputation that it rains all the time... and yet....most of you have much more than we do, !!