Water, water everywhere

Well, Blog Fans, we've been getting a lot of water falling down out of the sky. The rain just keeps on coming. Here are the Idaho Falls precipitation statistics as of June 12:

PRECIPITATION (IN)
YESTERDAY 0.21 0.04 0.17 0.01
MONTH TO DATE 2.62 0.52 2.10 0.12
SINCE OCT 1 9.04 8.31 0.73 7.15
SINCE JAN 1 6.41 5.64 0.77 3.83

Looks like the formatting got lost on the above numbers. The first number is self-explanatory. The second number is "normal" for that time period. The 3rd number in each line is "departure from normal" and the 4th number is the total last year for each time period.

Since January 1st, you will note that we are over 50% higher than last year's precip rec'd to date. Pretty amazing to have over 2.5 inches in a mere 13 days. WOW!

Meanwhile, the Snake River reservoirs are basically plumped up. Rumor has it there's more water in them than there has been in the last 20 years. I have no way of confirming that rumor. The best way to watch the reservoir levels is with what's called a "teacup" diagram. Click here to see it.

Whazzup with this blog?

Greetings, loyal readers! I had NO idea this blog would have such an "after life." I just checked the statistics for the first time in weeks. The numbers were shocking. There were 45 visits to the blog in the week ending May 31 with 97 pages views!

Now get this:

As the blog header notes, we started this effort in early November 2008. We installed a Site Meter on February 14. Since mid-February, this blog has recorded an incredible 1,791 visits and 3,421 pages views! Shocking? You betcha.

What does this mean? Well, for starters, it means I really ought to consider bringing this blog back to life. I can't really change the address of the blog--it's fixed as the "winter0809" address. That was pretty shortsighted of me to give it such a narrowly focused name. However, I can indeed change the "working" title of the blog to something other than "The Great Winter..."

Our weather obviously continues to be very weird and I'm betting it's Mt. Redoubt's Legacy. Sooo...I am temporarily going to begin posting to this blog once again. I hope to be able to run a poll to get your opinions as to whether I should continue to post or simply leave the blog alive as a place to visit all the links at left.

Thank You for visting and ya'll come back!

(Note: After writ5ing the above, I added a simple poll, as you can see at left. It's actually a Twitter app. but it works great with blogs, too. Please give it a shot.)