bummer July is over. the last half of the month was very wet. below from SDN.
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SUMMIT COUNTY - July lived up to its historic record as the wettest month of the year, with strong monsoon thunderstorms dumping more than two inches of rain across the local area.
In Breckenridge, weather watcher Rick Bly measured 2.29 inches of water, nearly right on par with the historic average rainfall (2.31 inches) for the month.
"It's interesting that 72 percent of that came on July 19 and 20. That's a little unusual," Bly said.
The early part of the month was extremely dry. At one point, around July 15, rainfall was only about 18 percent of average, Bly added. The single-day storm that dropped 1.29 inches on July 19 was the second-highest total Bly has recorded in more than three decades of taking observations for the National Weather Service.
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Wow, 1.29" on July 19th. That is a lot, and apparently the 2nd most one-day total in more than 30 years. In New Orleans, we received almost 17" in one day in 199, when our house flooded with 3' of water.
