The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-04
NOTHING COMPARE TO IT
Observer Won Herman Says it is
Simply Terrific.
IT WILL GO BEYOND SEVENTY INCHES
Next Highest Was So !, ches in '9l and Lowest
Was SO Inches in 81. Il Has Been a
Continuous Rainy Season
in Raleigh.

The rain fall in Raleigh during the
present year is unprecedented, and to use
the language of Weather Observer Won
Hermann, lit has been terrific"
For the nine months, beginning Janu-
airy 1st and ending October 1st, the total
rainfall was 54.74 inches. To the casual
reader. this statement does not seem UNI
usual, but when it is considered that the
total rainfall last year was only 47.2f
inches and in 1897 it was only 1891
inches, it will strike home more forcibly.
And when the twelve months has expired
there is every reason to believe tnat
the total precipitation for the year VIII
be over 20 inches.
ut has been terrific rainfall for the
past nine MONTHS Mr.. Won Hermann
remarked. 1.-The excess in the raln1ali
for these nine months is 11.4O inches.
The first three months, Janury, February
and March are known as the dry months,
and leaving these out of consideration the
excess of rain from April to October has
been 1918 inches This is a remarkable
excess for six months"
Undoubtedly this has been the rainiest
nine months the city has experienced in
at least a generation. The records OF the
Weather Bureau are proof of the fact
that there has never been such de-
LUCE in any one of the fourteen years OF
its existence here. 1t rained in the
spring, it rained in the summer and the
fall began with rain. It has been rain,
rain, rain all the time.
The normal rainfall in Raleigh for a
year is SOL inches, and with only nine
months chalked to it's credit the year
OF 1901 has already experienced 54.74
inches Of rain. The nearest approach to
the present phenominally wet season was
in 1881. That year the precipitation was
CAL The next highest was in 1899,
when the rainfall was 1898 inches. The
dryest year Raleigh has encountered
since the establishment of the Weather
Bureau was in 1897, when the total
amount of rain only measured 1887. The
rainfall by years is given for the last
decade as follows: In 1900, 47.24 inches;
1899, 1898 inches; 1898, 1885 inches;
1897. 1857 inches 1895. 1891 inches; 1895
81 ~ inches 1891. 1924 inches; 1893, 49.52
inches; 1892, 1901 inches; 1891, 63.41
inches; 1890, 1857 inches.
Inc TIlQIill lCT Inc past lilly LaohshH
has been as follows: January, 2.2O;
February, Las; March, 2.96; April, sos;
May $50; June. 6.04; July, ia; August
11.21; September, S26. The total for the
nine months is 54.74. For the past six
months the total precipitation amounts to
4S.10. With normal rainfall for the next
three months the total for the year will
exceed 10 inches, and if the excess is in
proportion to that of the LAST few months
Well it is too bad to think about.
The precipitation during the month OF
September was S.26 inches. The average
precipitation for the month for fifteen
years has been 344 inches. The excess
for the month was therefore 4.S2 inches.
weather Observer Won Hermann re-
marked Yesterday that the excessive
rains set in before the farmers did much
planting last spring. They were handi-
capped from the very start. as the tenn
pc rature in April and May was below the
normal and the conditions were unfa-
vorable for early progress OF vegetation
~ have been in the State twelve years,
Mr.. Won Hermann said, "and 1t has been
my observation and experience that
dry season is not nearly so harmful to
agricultural interests as an excessively
wet ore"