[alexander_busek]

U.S. Drought Monitor:

Now, could I please see the map of the U.S. showing those areas which have received above-average levels of rainfall?

That makes for more-balanced reporting.

Regards,

[blam]

"Now, could I please see the map of the U.S. showing those areas which have received above-average levels of rainfall?"

My already wet Mobile has an above average for the year.

Study Reveals Top 10 Wettest US Cities

The 10 rainiest cities in the U.S. by amount of annual rainfall include:

• Mobile, Ala.: 67 inches average annual rainfall; 59 average annual rainy days

• Pensacola, Fla.: 65 inches average annual rainfall; 56 average annual rainy days

• New Orleans, La.: 64 inches average annual rainfall; 59 average annual rainy days

• West Palm Beach, Fla.: 63 inches average annual rainfall; 58 average annual rainy days

• Lafayette, La.: 62 inches average annual rainfall; 55 average annual rainy days

• Baton Rouge, La.: 62 inches average annual rainfall; 56 average annual rainy days

• Miami, Fla.: 62 inches average annual rainfall; 57 average annual rainy days

• Port Arthur, Texas: 61 inches average annual rainfall; 51 average annual rainy days

• Tallahassee, Fla.: 61 inches average annual rainfall; 56 average annual rainy days

• Lake Charles, La.: 58 inches average annual rainfall; 50 average annual rainy days

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[Ben Ficklin]

The area is the dry zone, as opposed to the wet zone.

The area bounded by the 98th meridian to the east and the Cascades/Sierra Nevada in the west.

To list the rainfall in areas in the wet zone to the east of the 98th meridian, such as in reply #8, is not relevant.

In the wet zone they use Riparian water rights but in the dry zone they us prior appropriation water rights.

[stinkerpot65]

Zero Hedge is Chicken Little on meth.

Zero Hedge should be banned.