With more rain to come, it’s official: 2015 is Dallas-Fort Worth’s wettest ever

[TexasTowelie]

Updated at 12:30 a.m. November 27: It’s official, according to the National Weather Service:

NWS Fort Worth Verified account
?@NWSFortWorth

As of 12:14 AM CST DFW airport recorded 53.56" of rain for the year. This sets our all time record for highest rainfall in a year! #dfwwx

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/11/a-springlike-thanksgiving-day-will-give-way-to-abrupt-and-nasty-cold-front-friday-morning.html/

[font color=330099]Another 4-6 inches are expected today. There were two motorists that drowned last night.[/font]

[murielm99]

1. Why did I think you guys were in a drought?

Stay safe if you have to go out.

[TexasTowelie]

2. We were through May of this year.

It rained hard that month and part of June, but there was little rainfall between then and early October so a significant portion of the state reentered drought conditions. There were numerous grass fires throughout north, central and east Texas with the Lost Pines area east of Austin having about 5,000 acres on fire again. The drought conditions were relieved in October and November. What it boils down to is that when it rains we get a lot of it along with the flooding since the ground is so hard that it won't absorb the rain.

Meanwhile, it has just started raining in Wharton (70 miles SW of Houston).

[marble falls]

3. We're in seven years of drought.

This is a pier at Lake Buchanan. The level is down more than 30 ft.

[DhhD]

4. Using El Nino and La Nina to Predict Climate

WMO - World Meteorological Organization

Using El Niño and La Niña to Predict Climate

https://www.wmo.int/pages/themes/climate/el_nino_la_nina.php

Research conducted over recent decades has shown the important role played by interactions between the atmosphere and ocean in the tropical belt of the Pacific Ocean in altering global weather and climate patterns. During El Niño events, for example, sea temperatures at the surface in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean become substantially higher than normal. In contrast, during La Niña events, the sea surface temperatures in these regions become lower than normal. These temperature changes are strongly linked to major climate fluctuations around the globe and, once initiated, such events can last for 12 months or more. The strong El Niño event of 1997-1998 was followed by a prolonged La Niña phase that extended from mid-1998 to early 2001. Both of these events are clearly seen in the graph above. El Niño/La Niña events change the likelihood of particular climate patterns around the globe, but the outcomes of each event are never exactly the same. Furthermore, while there is generally a relationship between the global impacts of an El Niño/La Niña event and its intensity, there is always potential for an event to generate serious impacts in some regions irrespective of its intensity. For these reasons, monitoring and forecasting the El Niño/La Niña phenomenon is very important for forecasting the global climate as a whole.
more at link

[El Supremo]

5. DFW has been there only since 1973.

How about Dallas or Ft Worth records dating far before that?

[TexasTowelie]

6. I believe that

I recall reading something a few months ago that weather records were kept at a different location (I believe it was the National Weather Service Office in Fort Worth) prior to DFW Airport being opened.

I noticed that you changed avatars again. LOL!