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Posted: Nov. 09 2004,12:24 am |
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Rainfall total tops 8 inches
By Mark Hall
Monday, November 8, 2004 9:29 PM MST
Forget the summer monsoon.
Lake Havasu City was blasted by another fall rainstorm Sunday, receiving about 1.3 inches of rain, according to Mohave Community College weather data.
Another storm Monday dumped an additional 10th of an inch of rain on the north side of town and unloaded a deluge in the Thunderbolt Middle School area.
Sunday's rainfall, in addition to October's 2.5 inches, is more than the city collected during the summer monsoon - the period when the area traditionally receives the majority of its annual total. Between July and September, the city received about 3.5 inches of precipitation.
In total, the city is well above its yearly average of 4.5 inches of rainfall, with a little over 8 inches as of 5 p.m. Monday.
If current weather patterns persist, the a wet fall will become a wet winter, said John Adair, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Las Vegas.
"We're off to a good start for a wet winter," Adair said. "Basically, during the past three to four weeks, we've had three major Pacific storms come into the desert Southwest and bring widespread precipitation, particularly to Mohave County and Southern Nevada."
All of the recent precipitation has come from weather systems that were created in the Gulf of Alaska and moved down the West Coast, building moisture, Adair said.
Forecasters are predicting that as Sunday's storm leaves the regions, two more systems are on their way to Mohave County but may not drop as much rain.
"We have two more systems expected to drop in the Southwest United States, just as this one exits," Adair said. "It doesn't look right now that they'll bring as much moisture, but things can always change. They could pick up moisture on the way."
With all of the recent precipitation in the Southwest, a welcome change during an ongoing drought, Adair said forecasters aren't positive what is causing the Alaska systems to move so far south. While he is not totally ruling out a weak El Niño, he said it is most likely due to several weather factors.
"It's kind of hard to attribute to any particular phenomena," Adair said.
The first of the incoming weather systems is expected to reach the area this weekend, while the second is slated to arrive early next week.
Edited by RIVERRATMIKE on Nov. 09 2004,1:06 am
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