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| Above, the New Year's snowfall. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Winter 2018-2019 is said to be the wettest winter in the U.S. on record.
New Mexico had an average year, but neighboring states had above-average precipitation. We in Jamestown, New Mexico definitely had more snow than last winter's.
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| Above, New Year's Day snow on the mesas. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
According to The Weather Channel:
Winter 2018-19 was the wettest on record in the United States after numerous heavy rain and snow events soaked the nation, according to a just-released government report.
The national climate report from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) said the country's average winter precipitation total was 9.01 inches, 2.22 inches above the 20th-century average (1901-2000), which bested the previous record-wet winter of 1997-98 by 0.02 inches. In this analysis, winter is defined as the three-month period from December through February.
Much of the western U.S. received above-average precipitation during the winter season, while parts of the Plains, Great Lakes, southern Appalachians and Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee valleys experienced far-above-average or record precipitation.
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