In addition to having its rainiest year on record, Washington is also seeing its wettest November and its second wettest Autumn.
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Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri ranked the wettest May on record, NOAA found, while 7 other states ranked in their top 5 wettest for the month.
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It was both the wettest January and the wettest winter ever measured at the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford, which has kept daily precipitation records since 1767.
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The contiguous US average rainfall of 6.23 inches made 2018 the wettest year in 35 years and the third-wettest year since records began in 1895.
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This September may have been the wettest the country had seen since 1917, and the second wettest in the India Meteorological Department's records dating back to 1901.
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The storm was the second-wettest tropical system to affect the United States and the wettest tropical system on record in Hawaii, surpassing Hurricane Hiki in 1950.
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That sets a record as the wettest October through April period and edges ever closer to breaking the wettest-year record set just last year with 49.17 inches.
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The city is also one of the wettest in West Africa, receiving more than 20 inches of rainfall on average in August, the wettest month of the year.
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Southern Asia is already the wettest area on the continent and one of the wettest regions in the world, receiving an average of at least 217mm of rainfall a year.
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The continental United States as a whole is on pace to be the fifth wettest year on record and eight states are on track to have their wettest years on record.
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California just endured one of its wettest winters in history.
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It comes just after the UK's wettest month on record.
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Seattle is having one of its wettest winters on record.
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August is already its wettest month on record, as well.
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The Lake District is widely known as England's wettest place.
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Southern California had its wettest winter in almost a decade.
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Imelda became one of the wettest cyclones in U.S. history.
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In one way, though, May in the United States was extraordinary: The fifth month of 2019 ranked second wettest May in the 125-year record period and second wettest of all months since January 1895.
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Water Year '17 is one of wettest on record — so far.
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This winter is shaping up to be California's wettest on record.
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Last month was the wettest September on record in the state.
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That makes Imelda the seventh-wettest tropical cyclone in US history.
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The state is experiencing one of its wettest winters in decades.
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Five of the city's 10 wettest years have occurred since 2003.
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Across the US, 2019 was the second-wettest year on record.
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New York City just experienced its fourth-wettest year on record.
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The rainfall has made August the wettest month on record for Houston.
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Sunday morning, causing August to become the wettest month on record there.
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It's the third-wettest January to June on record for the state.
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"You're Beautiful" is the wettest song in existence (in the bad way).
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It will have its wettest year in 140 years of record-keeping.
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Southern California has been having its wettest winter in almost a decade.
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Southern California has just had its wettest winter in almost a decade.
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The end of 2015 was both the warmest and the wettest on record.
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Urbanization risks Southern Asia is one of the wettest areas in the world.
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I will be living my wettest dream by playing SNL on November 23rd.
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It is the fourth wettest tropical cyclone to hit the state of Texas.
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In the central Sierra, it was the wettest in more than three decades.
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After years of severe drought, California experienced one of its wettest winters on record.
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January, February and March are historically some of the wettest months for the state.
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The wettest time of the year in the south is from May to September.
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Another key finding is that worst flooding doesn't necessarily coincide with the wettest winters.
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This vegetation flourished after that profoundly rainy winter, one of California's wettest on record.
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This summer was one of the wettest on record in much of the Northeast.
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The U.S. just experienced its wettest 12 months in 124 years of recorded history.
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Saturday was one of the wettest July days ever recorded in Washington and Baltimore.
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It was also the second-wettest year in the US, NOAA reported last week.
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Historically, California's wettest winters have come in El Niño years, such as 22017-250.
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Wilmington will have its wettest year in the city's 453 years of record-keeping.
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Remarkable, given that the last century produced some of the wettest years on record.
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The city of Brenham, Texas, set a record for its wettest calendar year on record.
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The last 12 months, in fact, have been the wettest on record in U.S. history.
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This was followed by a winter deluge, one of the wettest in the state's history.
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It followed the second wettest winter on record, leaving a carpet of plants tinder dry.
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This past May capped the wettest 12-month span in the United States on record.
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"In the 2000s, we're seeing these extremes, between the driest and the wettest," he said.
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Atlanta, for example, had its fifth-wettest winter on record with more than 23 inches.
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Saturday was one of the wettest July days ever recorded in both Washington and Baltimore.
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California had it second-wettest season on record last winter, defying forecasts for dry conditions.
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NOAA reported last week that this past May was the second-wettest May on record.
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"One of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water", noted President Donald Trump.
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The wettest time of the year in Sri Lanka's south is usually from May to September.
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Miami is one of the wettest cities in the U.S., averaging 61.9 inches of rain annually.
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California's rainy season was one of the wettest on record, and followed a six-year drought.
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The wettest day in tournament history occurred on April 7, 1973, with 2.67 inches of rain.
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Seattle-Tacoma International Airport picked up 3.25 inches on Friday, the fifth wettest day on record.
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And even then, calling Hurricane Florence "one of the wettest we've ever seen" isn't totally accurate.
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The National Weather Service has called this the wettest winter season there in more than 100 years.
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The National Weather Service has called this the wettest winter season there in more than 100 years.
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America has just notched up its wettest 230 months ever, and floods are worsening across the Midwest.
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The past 12 months have been the wettest such period on record in the Lower 48 states.
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ET: April 18 was the second wettest day on record in Houston, with 9.92 inches of rain.
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It was also the third wettest year on record, with Oklahoma and Texas setting records for precipitation.
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Ibb, in the southwestern corner of the country, is the wettest place in the entire Arabian Peninsula.
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I got the wettest my third time on the ride when I was in the front row.
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The National Weather Service said the Northern Sierra had the wettest October and November in 30 years.
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The problem is that the original number was based on one of the wettest years in history.
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Last year was the third-wettest year in the Missouri Basin since record-keeping began in 1898.
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And congratulations: you can tell your grandchildren you lived through the seventh-wettest November in city history.
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Near a quarter inch of rain is possible in the wettest spots, probably east of Interstate 210.
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Nashville broke a rainfall record on Saturday making this the city's wettest February in over 100 years.
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The first nine months of 28503 were also the wettest stretch in that period in U.S. history.
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The first nine months of 2019 were also the wettest stretch in that period in U.S. history.
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The Times of India reports that puts the country on track for the wettest September since 1917.
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Earlier in the year, Texas experienced its wettest month on record, and experienced extensive flooding throughout the state.
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Venado, California, got 5 inches in one day, making it the wettest day in May in its history.
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The national weather service said the greater Paris region had in May endured its wettest month since 1960.
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THERE IS ONE thing the locals do not talk about in the wettest place on Earth: the rain.
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The discharges were an attempt to manage high water levels following the state&aposs wettest May on record.
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The cause of the landslide is due to heavy rains after the wettest winter in the state's history.
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"This is a tough hurricane, one of the wettest we've ever seen, from the standpoint of water." pic.twitter.
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In fact, 78 cities across the United States are on track to have their wettest years on record.
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Similarly, the Ohio River flooded in February, which was one of the wettest on record in the region.
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It was the seventh-wettest July day since record-keeping began in 1871, said NWS meteorologist Marc Chenard.
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One woman was still looking for a missing son after the seventh-wettest tropical cyclone in U.S. history.
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Why rain could be a factor Southern California has been having its wettest winter in almost a decade.
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Last year was the wettest on record for the continental U.S., and it's not over for the farmers.
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To put it another way: New York City's wettest years all occurred since "The Godfather" hit movie theaters.
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Another unique destination is Cherrapunji in the state of Meghalaya, which till recently was the wettest place on earth.
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"This is tracking to be perhaps the wettest season in Northern California ever," DWR spokesman Doug Carlson said Friday.
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The Houston area has already seen its wettest April on record, with almost 14 inches of rain so far.
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The U.S. also experienced its wettest year in 35 years and the third-highest precipitation going back to 1895.
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Its nine warmest years on record and six of its seven wettest years have all occurred from 2628 onwards.
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Floods and rain The year started off with torrential rainfall in California, marking the wettest winter in a century.
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The highest storm total rainfall, in Jefferson County, Texas, makes Imelda the seventh wettest tropical cyclone in US history.
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The wettest time of the year in Sri Lanka is usually during the southern monsoon, from May to September.
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Yet now, parts of Northern California are in the midst of their wettest winters in at least two decades.
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Latest stats show that December 24 was the wettest calendar month ever in our records dating back to 403 pic.twitter.
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Another likely medal contender, Spain's Orlando Ortega, won the wettest heat in 13.32, the fourth-fastest time of the evening.
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The wettest time of the year in Sri Lanka's south is usually during the southern monsoon, from May to September.
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Mt. Waialeale, for example, receives about 460 inches of rain per year, and is the wettest place in the country.
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The Chocó is among the wettest places on earth, with some areas seeing more than 400 inches of rain annually.
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If confirmed, this would make today the wettest day on record there, which was 10.34 inches on June 20163, 1989.
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Fannet, Texas saw 43 inches of rain, making it one of the top ten wettest cyclones in United States history.
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Britain has suffered widespread flooding in recent months and is on track for one of the wettest winters on record.
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Amid one of the wettest winters in decades, more heavy rainfall was due to strike Northern California starting on Sunday.
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The National Weather Service in Phoenix said that city had its eighth-wettest day ever with 2.36 inches of rain.
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Out of the 23 years of weather data collected at Central Park, the 153 wettest have all happened since 215.
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Record rainfall With more rain expected, some cities in the Pacific Northwest have already seen some of their wettest Februarys ever.
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Palm Springs posted 3.68 inches, its wettest February day on record and the third heaviest 24-hour rainfall in any month.
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Strong results at Lowe's rival came despite the second wettest February weather in U.S. history and a deflation in lumber costs.
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The hot, largely dry summer helped to dry out the vegetation that bloomed in the wake of Northern California's wettest winter.
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And it's coming on the heels of the wettest 12 months the US has seen since record-keeping began in 1895.
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But even during the dry season, which lasts from July to November, tropical rainforests are some of the Earth's wettest ecosystems.
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That tally made Imelda the seventh-wettest tropical cyclone on record in the United States, according to the National Weather Service.
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Rain will help but there is no telling when the next shower will come, since June is usually the wettest month.
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As for the slight slowdown in consumption at the end of 2015, December was both the warmest and the wettest on record.
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This season has been one of the wettest in China's recent history, with 2100 towns and cities suffering record amounts of rain.
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The heat comes on the heels of what the National Weather Service has called the wettest winter in the city's recorded history.
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Guillermo del Toro's new film is his wettest by far, notwithstanding the blood and other secretions that soaked through " Crimson Peak " (2015).
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In fact, 343 has been Iowa's wettest year since the state started keeping records in 1895, according to the Des Moines Register.
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Prior to Harvey, the wettest tropical cyclone in US history came in 1978 with the landing of tropical storm Amelia in Medina, Texas.
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Following years of drought, the wettest winter on record drenched the state, feeding a bumper crop of trees, grasses, and shrubs throughout California.
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The 1922 agreement that divvied up water from the Colorado River was forged during one of the wettest periods in the past millennia.
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Baton Rouge Airport recorded 8.18 inches of rain Friday, the wettest August day on record since weather records began over 100 years ago.
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But that alone isn't enough to save this, the wettest DC movie to date, from falling short of what it could have been.
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That obliterated the previous record for the wettest day and even beat that city's all-time monthly rainfall record by nearly 4 inches.
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Meanwhile, the Midwest saw the warmest and wettest December on record, the Midwestern Regional Climate Center at the Illinois State Water Survey said.
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A large chunk of that rain came just last month when the city had its second-wettest February with more than 10 inches.
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The 12-month period ending in May was the wettest 12 months over the 124 years for which the federal government has data.
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Last month was the wettest February on record for the United Kingdom, with a succession of storms bringing widespread flooding to many areas.
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After the wettest September on record, the soil has become so saturated that it won't support heavy equipment like combines and beet harvesters.
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This year's wet season, which began on October 2200, is on track to be wetter than the 230-250 season, which was the wettest.
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Most people connected with the park believe rain from Southern California's wettest winter in almost a decade has been a factor in the deaths.
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Peck partially blamed one of the "coldest, wettest quarters in memory" for the poor results, which he said influenced more shoppers to stay inside.
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It also rained... a lot: average precipitation was 34.47 inches, or 4.53 inches above the average, making it the third wettest year on record.
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As it turns out, there are, in fact, plenty of shoes made for the wettest of days that are not, strictly speaking, rain boots.
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The wettest 12-month period in recorded US history ended in May, and the resulting rain and snowfall continued feeding the rivers through June.
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It seems like the wettest, boggiest slope ever, with scores of crisscrossing rainwater runnels, turning everything into a churn of mud and sheep droppings.
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Imelda -- the seventh wettest tropical cyclone in US history, per the National Weather Service -- dumped more than 15 inches of rain across Harris County.
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Last month was also the wettest December on record, making it the first month since 1895 to break both its temperature and precipitation marks.
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A half-inch to an inch of rain is expected -- a rainy day for sure but certainly not among the wettest for the Masters.
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Flooding is the most expensive form of natural disaster, and the first half of 2019 was the wettest on record in the United States.
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The interstate agreements that govern water use in the Colorado River were forged back in the 1920s, one of the wettest decades on record.
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"December is the wettest month, during which you can expect about 4 inches of rain to fall over the course of the month," Pimental added.
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Bits of the Indian state of Meghalaya receive over 503 metres (36 feet) of rain a year, making them the wettest places on the planet.
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In the United States, December was both the warmest and the wettest on record -- no other month has ever held both distinctions for the country.
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The Mad Water Waterproof Duffel Bag is seriously hardcore and will keep your belongings dry on even the wettest trips — just look at the reviews.
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The climate information from NOAA showed that 22016 was also the third-wettest year since 22015, with only 1973 and 1983 ranking as wetter years.
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Related: A Furniture Farm Is Growing Whole Chairs Your Decaying Corpse Could Become a Tree Photographer Explores Tree Bridges in the Wettest Place on Earth
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At least 16 cities have already broken records for their wettest years on record, even as much of the western United States struggles with drought.
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At Hilo International Airport, rainfall from Wednesday to Friday totaled nearly 32 inches — the wettest three-day period on record, according to the Weather Service.
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India saw its wettest monsoon in a quarter of a century and rains have lasted longer this year, triggering floods and killing hundreds of people.
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Hurricane Harvey was the wettest storm in U.S. history, dumping more than a year's worth of water on Houston over the course of five days.
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No idea what was so funny, but maybe she dropped a line Prince George fed her from the schoolyard: Why is England the wettest country?
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This certainly helped make Florence the wettest tropical system to strike the US East Coast, dumping almost 3 feet of rain on parts of North Carolina.
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The briefing covered global climate statistics, but also consequences on the ground, including that 2018 was the third-wettest year on record in the United States.
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LONDON — December was the wettest month of any calendar month on record in the UK, according to new statistics released by the Met Office on Tuesday.
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Although tropical regions will experience smaller changes in temperature, their wettest months will become 5% wetter and their driest months 14% drier, according to the analysis.
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People connected with the park have said they believe rain from Southern California's wettest winter in almost a decade has been a factor in the deaths.
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Houston's William P. Hobby Airport recorded more than a foot of rain Saturday and 6103 inches of rain Sunday, the two wettest days recorded since 1930.
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"We'll reach everywhere we can," said Yerson, commander of a mobile unit on the San Juan River, amid some of the wettest rainforest on the planet.
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This season, though, the company courted danger by consistently running races, often regardless of conditions, during one of Southern California's wettest and coldest winters in decades.
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It was the wettest year on record for the lower 48 states, with the kind of extreme rainfall events that are increasingly associated with climate change.
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Nine states in the eastern United States had their wettest years on record: Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
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Oklahoma's rainfall from January 1 through Monday was 50% above normal -- making this the fourth wettest year to date on record, according to the Oklahoma Climatological Survey.
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A report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released in June included Nevada as one of the wettest states for the first five months of 2019.
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The weather in the UK may be famously foggy, but Facebook doesn't need to rub it in, especially when this month might be the wettest on record.
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He attributed this to the month of February being the second wettest on record in the U.S. and the decline in lumber prices, which hurt sales growth.
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Some areas in the South will in fact make a run for wettest year on record with the last few storms filling rain gauges to record levels.
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Thirteen of France's 96 administrative departments had flood alerts as of Friday, in what the monitoring body Météo-France says is the country's wettest winter since 1959.
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Yes, it's that time of year again, when it looks like someone took a cheese grater to roads all over the coldest, wettest parts of the continent.
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Many have pointed to Southern California's wettest winter in almost a decade, saying the rain has made the dirt track where most of the deaths occurred too soft.
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California just experienced one of its worst droughts in history, followed by one of its wettest winters, and then a period of little rain and record-hot temperatures.
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And in the United States, the past 12 months have been the wettest on record, with central regions experiencing weeks of near-continuous rainfall, inundating swathes of farmland.
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Go deeper: May was the 2nd-wettest month in the U.S. since 1895 Microplastics lurk in the deep sea Plastic bag found in deepest part of the ocean
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Months of drier and milder than average conditions followed the wettest winter on record in this area, leading to a surge in the amount of highly combustible fuels.
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You can write smoothly and crisply on the Five Star using an array of pens and pencils, with minimal bleed-through with all but the wettest of inks.
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The wettest 12 months in recorded U.S. history have exacted a price — millions of acres of waterlogged fields remain unplanted during the worst farm crisis since the '53s.
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They can also tolerate a wider range of temperatures, and rainy seasons that can deliver a total of 1,250mm annually in Kirinyaga, one of the country's wettest counties.
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" Earlier in the show, Oliver had played a clip of Trump saying that Hurricane Florence was "one of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water.
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Floodwaters receded Saturday, revealing an exhausting cleanup effort that lies ahead for communities and homeowners in the wake of one of the wettest tropical cyclones in US history.
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While some of the wettest parts of the world are seeing heavier and more unpredictable precipitation, scientists say, some drier parts of the planet are becoming measurably drier.
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Thursday's snowfall came after what had been an already wet week, during which around 70 cities in the Southeast had their wettest start to a year on record.
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Today is likely to be the wettest, but expect the showers, fog, wind (and possible thunderstorms) to stick around for most of the weekend, with highs around 60.
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Try this: five of New York City's 22001 wettest years have taken place since 26 — when the first "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie was on the big screen.
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In addition to being the wettest tropical storm to ever hit the United States, it matched Hurricane Katrina in terms of cost, inflicting some $126 billion in economic losses.
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In the contiguous United States, the year was the second-warmest on record, punctuated by a December that was both the hottest and the wettest since record-keeping began.
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Why it matters: May 2018 to April 2019 was the wettest 12-month period on record for the Lower 48 states, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information.
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Those vulnerabilities are mirrored in villages and cities across West and Central Africa - among the world's poorest and wettest regions - that face a worsening threat from landslides, researchers say.
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Nevada and Wyoming set records for precipitation, while California had the second wettest winter in the 123 years of record-keeping, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said.
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There was a slight dampness to everything — Hilo is one of the wettest cities in the Northern Hemisphere, and I had arrived just after a period of heavy rain.
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The variations may seem slight, but summertime — the season that leaves us daydreaming perpetually about beaches, barbecues and brightness — is often, on average, the wettest period of the year.
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The period between October 2018 and September was also the wettest 12-month period in the record books, with the average precipitation coming in at 6.51 inches above average.
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The period between October 85033 and September was also the wettest 12-month period in the record books, with the average precipitation coming in at 6.51 inches above average.
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"The Most Magical Place on Earth" became the wettest place for a group of theme park guests who got caught on a sinking vessel ... the park's famous Jungle Cruise.
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But five months of heavy rain - part of the wettest 2300 months in over a century in Ohio, meteorologists say - means harvesting much of anything will be a challenge.
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Rainfall records for the area had been broken only one day before, when the weather service reported that 2018 was the wettest calendar year ever recorded at Washington National Airport.
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Total sales rose nearly 1 percent to $3.69 billion in the quarter, affected by the second wettest six-month period in the United States in 125 years, the company said.
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The simple explanation is that the last five years have been the wettest in history in the Great Lakes watershed, which encompasses parts of eight states and two Canadian provinces.
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Farmers have been facing one of the wettest spring seasons in decades as a result of heavy rains and flooding in large sections of the Midwest and Eastern Plains region.
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Unrelenting rains catapulted May to the second-wettest month on record in the U.S., leaving vast tracts of farmlands flooded across the nation's midsection, and jeopardizing this year's corn crop.
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Earlier this year, Port opened up to PEOPLE about how she and husband Tim Rosenman are adjusting to life as parents — including one of her biggest (and wettest) parenting fails.
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The last 12-month period was the wettest on record across the country, which broke the record set the month before, which broke the record set a month before that.
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In a briefing last week, a Beats representative grabbed one earcup in each hand and tweaked them hard, like he was trying to violently wring out the world's wettest towel.
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Wettest year in 35 years for the United States Many locations around the planet endured extreme weather and climate events in 2018, but the United States was hit particularly hard.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that the 12-month period ending in May of this year was the wettest 20193 months on record in the United States.
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"The wettest 103-month period in U.S. history brought flooding and record planting delays across major corn and soybean growing regions," Luke Chandler said on Deere's fiscal third-quarter earnings call.
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The past 12 months have been the wettest such period on record — with flooding on numerous rivers rivaling or exceeding the great floods of the past century, including 1927 and 1993.
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Last year's race — which was considered the wettest derby yet — was won by Justify, who crossed the finish line 2:04.20 and beat second-place Good Magic and third-place Audible.
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The band from Oxfordshire, England, first headlined in 1997, one of the wettest years in the festival's history, when they lifted a sodden crowd with music from their album "OK Computer".
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Officials said the river could peak at 6.50 meters later on Friday, and warned flood waters could take several weeks to recede after the wettest May in France for 100 years.
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The current Niño is one of the strongest on record; its rivals in 21980-250 and 22014-22015 ushered in two of California's wettest years after storms between January and March.
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Tropical Storm Imelda, now a tropical depression, swamped southeastern Texas with rainfall up to 43 inches in some areas this week, making it the seventh wettest tropical cyclone in American history.
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In 2012 – the wettest summer in the UK for 100 years—57 festivals went out of business as the costs of addressing flooding or dealing with cancellations were beyond them financially.
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"We should see the wettest year in recorded history, or at least since records have been kept in 1895," Walton said, who has spent more than 30 years as a meteorologist.
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After five years of severe drought in the state, in which water all but vanished from some reservoirs, this year is on pace to be one of the wettest on record.
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The past 12 months have been the wettest such period on record for the Lower 48 since such records began in 1895, with rains especially concentrated in the Midwest, Plains and Northeast.
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Garcia, a 38-year-old former journalist and Democrat from Des Moines, thinks flooding has been getting worse in the state, which just came out of its wettest 21950-months on record.
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Garcia, a 260-year-old former journalist and Democrat from Des Moines, thinks flooding has been getting worse in the state, which just came out of its wettest 22018-months on record.
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At Nairobi's Giraffe Center, you can feed Rothschild's giraffes food pellets from your palm, and stick a pellet between your lips and get the wettest, stickiest kiss you've received since seventh grade.
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According to Meteo France, in Ile-de-France, this May was the wettest on record, with rainfall totals coming close to the record high for any month, which was set in December 1999.
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Hurricane Harvey hovered over the Gulf Coast in late August and dumped 33 trillion gallons of water on US soil, according to some estimates, and is now the wettest storm in US history.
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Last July, the CHIRPS team noticed that their data set was showing an almost total lack of rain for parts of Ethiopia, in what would normally be the wettest time of the year.
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The fires are being fed by the desiccated remains of lush vegetation that grew during one of the wettest winters on record in California, only to endure a record warm and dry summer.
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Even before the arrival of Hurricane Florence, North Carolina has experienced its fourth wettest year to date in nearly 225 years, according to Bill Kirk, CEO and co-founder of Weather Trends International.
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Traveling in Gambia at the hottest, wettest time of year tested my physical stamina, my relationship with my older brother (still intact) and my ability to sleep in puddles of my own sweat.
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This was one of the wettest periods on record in the region, said Chris Funk, who researches precipitation in the region at the Climate Hazards Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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The area between Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, could be the wettest spot in the country this week but by Christmas Eve, the system should be offshore, said CNN meteorologist Pedram Javaheri.
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"We were on track to have the driest period on record in California until Thanksgiving weekend and then these storms took off and now we are on track to be the wettest," Ullrich said.
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These alkali flies, whose scientific name is Ephydra hians, have magnified both traits to overcome the extreme conditions of Mono Lake, considered among the "wettest" water on Earth with a slippery, nearly oily feel.
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The 5.7 million people who live in and around Atlanta experienced the second wettest April day on record as 4.27 inches (11 cm) of rain fell in the metro area, AccuWeather said on Twitter.
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The National Weather Service in Houston preliminary reported that the highest storm total rainfall so far is 22019 inches in Jefferson County, Texas, which makes Imelda the seventh wettest tropical cyclone in US history.
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PINK HILL, North Carolina — The tropical storm that began as Hurricane Michael swept through eastern North Carolina on Thursday, pouring more rain on a state already struggling to handle its wettest year on record.
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The state also had its hottest summer on record, which dried out the vegetation that grew after one of its wettest winters, forming a perfect weather whiplash combo that is conducive to igniting large fires.
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BELMONT STAKES&apos TRIPLE CROWN CONTENDER, START TIME, ODDS AND EVERYTHING ELSE ABOUT THE HORSE RACE The race horse won by two and a half lengths at Churchill Downs during the wettest Derby in history .
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Catch up quick: The first half of 2019 is on its way to becoming the wettest on record due to snowmelt and flooding, largely in the Midwest, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Northeastern North Dakota – another very productive agricultural district – is also under the wettest conditions on CPC's scale and the majority of cropland from the eastern Dakotas clear across to Michigan is classified as very moist.
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"This has been America's wettest year on record in 124 years," said Matt Roe of the Army Corps of Engineers, who greeted me out at the Bonnet Carre Spillway, one hour northwest of New Orleans.
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Cities in central Pennsylvania have made up 10 of the top 15 wettest areas in the 24 hours from Monday to Tuesday, with some places climbing upward of 8 inches, according to the weather service.
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Britain's national weather agency, the Met Office, reported this year has been the warmest on record for England and Wales, and both the second-warmest and second-wettest for the United Kingdom as a whole.
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What we saw over the last seven years — a drought that brought California to its knees, followed by what could be the wettest year on record — is in the climate forecast models of the future.
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While I fought deeper into the subway-turned-morgue, I could still hear my buddy through the headset: chatting with his wife, making plans for the weekend, and letting rip the loudest, wettest, most percussive fart.
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Forecast models show the rain continuing across Argentina over the next two weeks, with the wettest weather occurring in northern regions of the country where little soy is grown, according to analysts with Refinitiv Agriculture Research.
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WINNIPEG/CHICAGO (Reuters) - North America's wettest harvest in about five years is hiking farmers' costs as they dry crops to avoid spoilage and forcing them to take price discounts that are pinching incomes already under stress.
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"Another unfortunate thing is, when these people come - including governments - they look for the wettest parts of the dry lands which the pastoralists have traditionally reserved for dry season grazing," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Overall, the 12 months ending in April were the wettest 12-month period on record in the United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, whose records on the subject go back to 1895.
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The agency attributes the increase of these intense rains to global warming, heralding a new era in a country that is already among the world's wettest, with a language that has dozens of words for rain.
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Texas authorities linked a 5th death to the remnants of Tropical Storm Imelda Saturday, as receding floodwaters revealed the extent of the damage from one of the United States' wettest tropical cyclones on record, AP reports.
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Continental US endured the wettest 12 months on record Exacerbating fears among residents and officials is the state's levee system, portions of which, they say, may not be high enough or strong enough to withstand the water.
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But in a winter likely to go down as the wettest on record, in which some parts of the state have already surpassed their typical yearly precipitation total, it'd be foolish not to brace for the worst.
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A main problem is that six of the seven wettest years on record in Britain have been since 2000, said Piers Forster, a professor of climate change at the University of Leeds who contributed to the study.
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Day 21987 of the championships is traditionally men's semi-final day but after one of the wettest weeks on record in Paris, the women were forced to contest their last-four clashes a day later than expected.
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However, Brian Fuchs, from the National Drought Mitigation Center, notes last month was the seventh wettest March in 125 years, according to the Palmer Drought Index, which is one tool that goes into creating the drought monitor.
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Engineering and avionics for the drone-like vehicle were developed by Alaka'i Technologies, a privately held company based in Massachusetts but named for a tropical forest in Hawaii ranked as one of the wettest spots on Earth.
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Last week, Minas Gerais recorded the wettest 24-hour period since precipitation records began being kept 110 years ago, with accumulated rainfall of 172mm (6.8 inches) from Thursday to Friday, according to the government's meteorological agency Inmet.
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"...In general, California's water infrastructure is definitely feeling the strain of one of the wettest seasons on record, and it won't take much additional precipitation to cause some pretty big problems over the next week," Swain said.
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The study also found that global warming has boosted the probability of the driest year at 57 percent of studied areas, while the wettest 5-day period has become more likely at 41 percent of the observed areas.
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The update also revealed that 2015 was the sixth-wettest year in the UK since records began in 1910 with a mean temperature of 9.2 degrees Celsius, which was cooler than the warmest year, which occurred in 2014.
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The hardest hit areas in southern England saw 20133 inches of rain over just December and January, and that January was the wettest in the area since 1910 by a "very wide margin," according to the Met Office.
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The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this month that there is a moderate to major risk of flooding from northeast North Dakota to northwest Minnesota, where the region's wettest soils and deepest snowpack conditions are found.
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Danger from flooding at Oroville subsided on Monday, but Northern California is on track to mark its wettest winter on record, and the storm waters have created unexpected problems for a state that has struggled with years of drought.
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Read more: Hurricane categories tell only part of the story — here's the real damage storms like Dorian can doMoreover, Hurricane Harvey proved to be the wettest hurricane in US history after dumping 4 feet of rain on Houston, Texas.
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Part of the problem will be due to the heavy rain and snow the US has already received (we just wrapped the wettest December ever recorded) but more heavy rainfall is expected to drench the country with periodic, torrential rains.
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Hurricane Maria destroyed Puerto Rico's power grid and devastated the island, while Hurricane Harvey broke a rainfall record for a single tropical storm, and record floods hit at least five states with California ending a drought with its wettest winter ever.
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In one of wettest spots near Santa Barbara, over 10 inches (25 cm) of rain fell on Friday with several other stations in Southern California reporting at least 9 inches (23 cm), said meteorologist Patrick Burke of the Weather Prediction Center.
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East Africa, which comprises Nakate's home country of Uganda, is facing its worst locust invasion in decades after one of the wettest seasons in 40 years came on the back of drought — a situation scientists say is becoming the new normal.
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According to the National Weather Service in Honolulu, rainfall in Mountain View, Hawaii, totaled 51.53 inches for the period between Wednesday afternoon and early Sunday morning, making Lane the third wettest tropical cyclone to affect the United States since 1950.
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The National Weather Service said preliminary estimates suggested that Jefferson County was deluged with more than 40 inches (102 centimeters) of rain in a span of just 72 hours, which would make it the seventh wettest tropical cyclone in U.S. history.
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Waugh couldn't confirm it without more investigation, but he's pretty confident that is the largest amount of precipitable water ever recorded in the continental US. Of course, it turned out to be a harbinger of the wettest tropical storm event in US history.
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After the wettest winter on record in the state, the collapse marked the third major closure in Big Sur, a roughly 76-mile stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway that hugs California's rugged Central Coast between Cambria and Carmel-by-the-Sea.
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In one of the wettest spots near Santa Barbara, over 10 inches (25 cm) of rain fell on Friday, with several other stations in Southern California reporting at least 9 inches (23 cm), said meteorologist Patrick Burke of the Weather Prediction Center.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As California edged toward historic rainfall totals in one of the wettest winters in memory, its neighbor state across the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii, has been hit with sustained blizzard conditions that have dumped 8 inches of snow onto mountain peaks.
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BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — The widespread damage brought to the Houston area by one of the wettest tropical cyclones in US history came into broader view Saturday, as floodwaters receded to reveal the exhausting cleanup effort that lies ahead for many communities and homeowners.
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Tropical Storm Imelda began seriously plaguing parts of Texas this week and a preliminary total of 43.15 inches of rainfall has been measured in Jefferson County, making Imelda the seventh wettest tropical cyclone in the nation's history, the National Weather Service reported. Gov.
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It had already been one of the wettest years on record in much of the Missouri River watershed when a huge storm — dubbed a "bomb cyclone" — pummeled the central U.S. in mid-March, dropping massive rain and snow from North Dakota to Colorado.
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One man wore nothing but a tool belt, which no one seemed to mind even as the wettest and drunkest of the young and rural Australians — both women and men — tackled each other in the thick red mud, before arising for hugs.
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Strictly speaking, it's selecting plants that function and thrive in dry conditions, but even in climates like New York's (where we just had our fourth-wettest year on record), it prescribes plants and techniques that make your garden resilient and water-wise.
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Today and tomorrow, California is experiencing the wettest storm of the rainy season so far—an "atmospheric river" that's expected to dump two to three inches of rain throughout the Central Valley and nearly a foot in the mountains, according to the New York Times.
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After accounting for the amount of time remaining before Christmas and the day of the week—the songs are most popular at the weekend—it turns out that Christmas listening is most prevalent in countries that have the fewest daylight hours and the wettest weather.
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The last 12 months have been the wettest 12 months in U.S. history, leading to widespread flooding around the nation (For every 1 degree Celsius, or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, of warming, the air can hold 193 percent more water.) The Arctic is on fire.
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KALAMB, India, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Heavy rains in October and November have brought more misery to India's farmers, after summer-sown crops such as soybean, cotton, rice and vegetables suffered rain and flood damage during the wettest June-September monsoon season in 215 years.
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Huge parts of the country had a 'flash drought' While the West Coast and parts of the Northern Plains experienced much more precipitation than usual -- with North Dakota having its wettest September on record -- the South, mid-Atlantic and Ohio Valley were begging for some hydration.
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The new study takes such findings a step further by looking at how global warming is shifting the odds and severity of unprecedented climate events, such as the historically hottest month, hottest day, driest year, and wettest 5-day period on record for a given location.
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The key to California's water solutions was that it was among both the wettest and driest of states, and thus was the sole arbiter of its water destiny, without endless poly-state rivalries and feuds that plague the transference and distribution of the waters of the Colorado River.
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Residents below the dam were ordered from their homes on Sunday when an emergency spillway that acts as an automatic overflow channel appeared on the brink of collapse from severe erosion during what is on track to be Northern California's wettest winter on record after years of drought.
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When California was in the midst of its wettest winter in 22015 years in February of last year, 803 inches of rain fell in the Sierra Nevada over just three days, sending a record flow of water into the lake held back by the tallest dam in the United States.
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