The rain yesterday and overnight totaled 1.27″ at my location. I am a CoCoRaHS volunteer and we submit our report each morning at 7am. So that rain is my August 1st report number. CoCoRaHS is short for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, headquartered at Colorado State University. There are somewhere in the area of 20,000 people reporting across the US and Canada.
For my location a dry month with 2.27″ measured compared to the NOAA normal of 4.28″. The moisture we did receive was evenly spread across the month with 4 being the most completely dry days in a row. You can see the effects of less rain with lawns starting to turn brown in sunny areas. Within the CoCoRaHs network my location is the driest in the state for July.
In Windham County there are a couple of stations reporting over 4″ for the month so many locations are not as dry. Up north it is a different story with near record rainfall. A station in St. Johnsbury has measured 17.73″ for the month.
