Winter 2018-19 Was Wettest on Record in U.S., NOAA Says

CLICK HERE - ncei.noaa.gov - Assessing the U.S. Climate in February 2019 - Wettest winter on record for the contiguous United States

weather.com - by Brian Donegan - February 6, 2019

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.

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