subnormal

 

We're living in dry times around here. How dry?

Not drastically dry - just under 75% for the four-month period. But when you look at the bigger picture, it's been unusually dry! 

In the eight years we've lived up here, we have never seen all four of these months below average in a year. We've had drier Novembers, but Oct Dec and Jan had not been this dry before. More than that, these four months are wet ones: 54.1% of our annual average should now be in the bucket. Each of these months has averaged more than 100% of the PRISM statistical average for this site from the 2016-22 water years. October and February had never seen a sub-100% month.. until Oct 22. 

We shall see what Feb '23 brings us. We've definitely had a few damp months in the springtime too, so our annual number is still in reach. 

If we reach normal though, it won't be in a normal manner. But rarely is 'normal' done that way.