August Rain Greens Texas Pastures; Central Texas Sets A Record
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August Rain Greens Texas Pastures; Central Texas Sets A Record
August 2008 will probably turn out to be the tenth wettest month on record in Texas and the wettest in Central Texas since records have been kept, the National Weather Service says.
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(September 7, 2008)--The final numbers for August haven’t been tallied, yet, but the National Weather Service says August 2008 will probably turn out to be the 10th wettest on record in Texas.

Early in the month, tropical storm Edouard hit the upper Texas coast and its remnants rolled across Central Texas, but the main reason for the high totals was an unusually strong non-tropical upper-level low-pressure area that dropped south from North Dakota and parked itself over Texas on Aug. 15 and remained for a week, dumping rain on all of the state except for far West Texas.

Waco recorded its wettest August ever with 10.33 inches, 8.48 inches above it normal of 1.85 inches.

On Aug. 18 and 19 Waco got 7.24 inches, the most ever in a 48-hour period.

Del Rio got 11.32 inches for the month, its second wettest on record, and McAllen had its third wettest August on record with 6.84 inches, 4.11 inches above its normal of 2.73 inches.

The top three wettest locations in the state were Baytown (13.30 inches), Orange (12.85 inches), and Tyler (11.53 inches), which is quite a turnaround from the first half of 2008, when Texas experienced its 23rd driest first six months.

The statewide average for January through June was 10.94 inches, 2.93 inches below the normal of 13.87.

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Posted by: Tam Location: Killeen on Sep 8, 2008 at 08:53 AM

We did not get this much rain either. It rained in down town Killeen and all around us. We are very dry--creeks totally dry. We need major rain!!!
Posted by: charlie brown Location: HOT- HEART OF TEXAS on Sep 7, 2008 at 11:45 PM

Not where I'm liveing the grass is still DEAD !! and I'm scareed to death of a wind and fire at the same time comeing thru !!!!!
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