Have the Guadalupes pretty much missed out on the 2018 monsoon? Mesonet shows about 3.5" in July, which isn't too bad, but then only about an inch in August and an inch so far in September.
However, if the data is from one station only, this hardly gives a clear indication of conditions in the park. Can anyone give a more general report?
It looks like a big chunk of Texas is getting some much needed rain. The coast, West, Central and South Texas all seem to have had some decent rain the last month or so. We have a little tropical wave coming in as we speak.
Here is the data from six stations. It wasn't easy to compile; there's probably a better way to do this.
And of course, the technique for getting a table into this post is opaque to reason.
The 17.97 data point looks like bad data.
Thankfully I've never had to this, but that is the funniest thing I've read all day.
It is. I was in the park for the first half of June (and at Dog Canyon for a couple of days), and rainfall there wasn't nearly that high. Maybe one-tenth of that total fell there, if even that much.
It wasn't as green as I had expected when I was there in August. But I figured I was a little early in the season.
The reading for Dog Canyon has to be wrong; I meant to mention this in the original post, but was in a hurry.
It seems curious that the McKittrick station has remained completely out of service for so long, seeing how accessible the location would be for maintenance.
I'm a little jealous of BBNP getting all the rain and GMNP apparently not getting much. Maybe there will be some catching up in the remainder of September and on into October.
Yes....an inch fell in the Chisos since midnight.