We know we’ve been in an active jet stream storm track pattern for months now. The numbers on the charts and tables don’t even include some of the most recent rain but it’s close enough for some perspective. No wonder lakes Allatoona and Lanier are near all time high levels.

For the last 90 days not including the new rain that started Monday, rainfall amounts of up to 30 inches or more in some spots in the Metro, 15 or more above average in some areas.

Put another way, over just the winter days alone ("Meteorological Winter" is Dec 1-end of February) rainfall has been double or more than double the normal:

INCHES OF RAIN LAST 90 DAYS:

DIFFERENCE FROM NORMAL LAST 90 DAYS:

PERCENTAGE OF NORMAL LAST 90 DAYS:

And we all know how few dry days in a row we’ve had (covered in previous tweets and blogs) and how few sunny days.

There are some PRELIMINARY signs that we may start to see this extreme pattern start to relax at least some in upcoming weeks. More on that if and when I can confirm it, remember the dead horse I’ve been beating for months now... I don’t trust models beyond 5 days as two-year performance has been abnormally abysmal.

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