...that it has rained HARD almost every day in my city for about three weeks, yet the weatherman says we need rain. Grass grows fast, flowers a plenty, no dead trees, lakes are not low, how can we be low on rainfall?
2006-08-11 11:05:58 · 19 answers · asked by persnickety1022 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
and, no we had regular rainfall before. nothing out of the ordinary
2006-08-11 15:06:17 · update #1
i always thought that was weird too. same thing happens here. i think it has to do with the average rainfall for the year, and the water table. it needs to catch up more i guiess to reach some sort of predetermined average.
2006-08-11 11:09:20 · answer #1 · answered by foxfirevigil 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps it's been a dry YEAR so far by you- & the recient rains haven't yet made up for the deficit. In other words; if you normally get 25" of rain by now in a year- but the latest rains have only brought the total up to 19" - then you still need more rain. See? It's a case the amount of rain falling over a given period of time.
2006-08-11 18:17:07 · answer #2 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow! Send some this way. We haven't had a good rain in over a month now. The grass is brown, and the garden is drying right up.
2006-08-11 18:12:12 · answer #3 · answered by oceansoflight777 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Usually, hard rain immediately washes away or goes down the gutter. Hopefully, it would go into a retention basin.
A slow, recurring rain is necessary, especially to refill underground wells.
2006-08-11 18:10:01 · answer #4 · answered by MЯ BAIT™ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wwater is cheap so leaks tend to be bad, ditto water management. And urban heat islands cause more rain , and the rain has to fall in the catchment areas of the storage dams for it to become available as drinking water
2006-08-11 18:35:05 · answer #5 · answered by Kalahari_Surfer 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Water is needed in the ground and just because you've had a lot of rain doesn't mean that you had enough to fill the need.
2006-08-11 18:10:21 · answer #6 · answered by John W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Multiply that by a hundred and voila Welcome to ireland, all it does here is rain, actually we've been lucky this year got a good spell of sunny weather, hence y we're all going around looking like a zebra crossing in red and white lol
2006-08-11 18:10:18 · answer #7 · answered by MissElection 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess for the same reason that the weather people said no rain in our forecast, and it's been raining all week...
2006-08-11 18:08:57 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your weather man is broadcasting for two different stations and he got your city confused with Las Vegas
2006-08-11 18:09:13 · answer #9 · answered by t4king 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He probably means overall, not just in one area. It has rained very little here in SC.
2006-08-11 18:07:38 · answer #10 · answered by ladysodivine 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋