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Over the contiguous United States, total annual precipitation increased at an average rate of 6.1 percent per century since 1900, with the greatest increases within the East North Central climate region (11.6 percent per century) and the South (11.1 percent). Hawaii was the only region to show a decrease (−9.25 percent). [89]
The Pacific Northwest United States, the Rockies of British Columbia, and the coastal ranges of Alaska are the wettest locations in North America. The equatorial region near the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), or monsoon trough, is the wettest part of the world's continents.
Hurricane Easy in 1950 produced the wettest known point total from any tropical cyclone. [21] The record number of hurricane strikes on the state in one season is four in 2004. [42] Hurricanes typically spawn tornadoes within their northeast quadrant. [43] Tropical cyclones have affected Florida in every month of the year but January and March.
KXAN dug through the archives to find the hottest, coldest, wettest and, yes, snowiest(!) Christmases in history.
Experts say September is also Oxford's second wettest month since records began in ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
A series of powerful storms brought Los Angeles close to having its wettest February ever recorded. A new storm Monday was unlikely to break the record.
The wettest months of the year are April and May in western areas, but approaching the Gulf Coast, September becomes the year's wettest month on average. This owes to the threat from tropical weather systems, including hurricanes, which can bring torrential rains of 5 to 10 inches (130 to 250 mm) in one or two days.
The month of July 2023 was the hottest month on record globally. [21] September 2023 was the most anomalously warm month, averaging 1.75 °C (3.15 °F) above the preindustrial average for September. [22]