The usual saying is “April Showers, Bring May Flowers” but this year it looks like May showers will be bringing us June flowers. This May will go down as one of the wettest on record for Cincinnati and the surrounding areas.
We had a relatively dry meteorological spring coming into the month of May. Between March and April, there had only been a combined 5.44” of rain. That was more than three inches below the normal for that timeframe. However, May has made up that deficit and then some.
This May brought 9.08” of rain at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) where Cincinnati’s climate data records are recorded. That is nearly double the May average of 4.67”. In fact, that ranks as the fifth wettest May on record at CVG. Records began in 1872, so that is 150 years worth of data.
Other notable totals from across the Tri-State include:
- Delhi – 10.45”
- Brookville, IN – 8.42”
- Wilmington – 7.89”
- Cheviot – 7.04”
The good news, as we look ahead at June, is that the Climate Prediction Center is not expecting a wetter than normal month of June.
Their forecast for June has us in the “equal chances” of seeing below normal or above normal precipitation. June’s 30-year rainfall average is 4.75”.
