Why has it been raining so much?

Our Storm Team Ten Meteorologists have been calling for rain for weeks and weeks, and we’ve been getting plenty of it.

“The past several years, we’ve been running huge deficits, been in a drought.  Finally we’re starting to make up for that,” said Storm Team Ten Meteorologist Patrick McKee.

For January, February, March, and April, rainfall has been pretty close to average compared to previous years.  But in May, we got 2.6 inches more rain than average and so far in June, we’re 1.3 inches above average.  This puts us on pace to be close to a three inch rain surplus this month too.

So why are we getting so much rain this time of year?

“The past couple of years we saw very heavy rain throughout the plains.  Patterns have now shifted that towards the east coast to where we’re getting the rain and they’re not,” said McKee.

We’ve seen droughts in the past couple summers, so the question is, will it be a dry summer? Or continue to pelt us with the wet stuff?

“We are going to see this rain continuing for us probably through the summer off and on.  We’ll go through some wet spells and some dry spells followed by another round of rain.  I don’t see us going back into a drought.“

Get used to the rain because McKee says it shouldn’t clear up until later this weekend.