I'm writing this post as much for myself as anyone else. It's raining again today. I'm always interested in where we stand with respect to our annual rainfall averages and I can never find the link to the NOAA page with the data. The NOAA website's search capabilities aren't the best in the world and their overall organization is pretty poor.
Having whined about that, I finally got a hit with a Google search. Here's the page for California rainfall totals, updated every 24 hours.
As of this post, we've had 6.07" of rain. Last year was very dry, we had only 2.96" at this point. Our annual average to this point is 6.93", so despite what seems like unnaturally wet weather lately, we're actually a bit behind schedule. After this weekend, I'll bet we catch up.
It would be great to have a widget I could post on one of my sidebars that showed annual rainfall totals, updated automatically. I wonder how hard that would be to write in php.
Hmmm.
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It rains all the time up here. Raining now. Could get depressing. I try to look at it this way
In the poetry of the Hawaiians rain almost always is the rain of a particular place with a specific character and an allusion to an erotic element of some story draped with names.
The garden waits for the rain, responds to it at once, opens to it, holds it, takes it up and shines with it. The sound and touch and smell of the rain, the manner of its arrival, its temper and passage are like a sensuous visitation to the garden.
Not my words - they come from WS Merwin 3/97 House and Garden (Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry in 1970)
You should took a look at Weather Underground. Tons of good numbers.
Thanks for the suggestion, Justin, but I couldn't find what I was looking for at Weather Underground.
Found this for our area - Climate: Annual Rainfall Eureka 1905-2005
Caption: The Chart Table Rainfall_EKA_Yr_1905_2005_Annual.db shows the annual rainfall totals in inches at Eureka, California from 1905 to 2005. Data comes from the California Data Exchange Center and was downloaded from the Internet. The original data had monthly break downs (see Source Table).
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Thanks, Rose!
How hard is it to write a widget?
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