April showers, as the saying goes, bring May flowers. Apparently, though, in Earth's new climate regime there is a corallary to this, which goes something like, "May downpours bring deadly floods and all-time rainfall records." At least that was the case this year.
According to data released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, May was the wettest month on record in the contiguous U.S. NOAA says the average May precipitation total for the lower 48 states was 4.36 inches, which was 1.45 inches above average.
This was the wettest May on record, and the wettest month of any month since instrument record-keeping began in 1895. So much rain fell that if converted into gallons it would amount to more than 200 trillion gallons of water, according to the AP.
For the spring season, the contiguous U.S. precipitation total was 9.33 inches, 1.39 inches above average, and the 11th wettest on record.
The rest of this story can be found here: http://mashable.com/2015/06/08/may-wettest-month-us-history/
According to data released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, May was the wettest month on record in the contiguous U.S. NOAA says the average May precipitation total for the lower 48 states was 4.36 inches, which was 1.45 inches above average.
This was the wettest May on record, and the wettest month of any month since instrument record-keeping began in 1895. So much rain fell that if converted into gallons it would amount to more than 200 trillion gallons of water, according to the AP.
For the spring season, the contiguous U.S. precipitation total was 9.33 inches, 1.39 inches above average, and the 11th wettest on record.
The rest of this story can be found here: http://mashable.com/2015/06/08/may-wettest-month-us-history/
