Rain, How Much & Where

Barbara Crimond | Jun 01, 2021 | Comments 0

Landscape Category – Winner – Jim Thompson (CPW)

The usual speculation of how much precipitation we’ve received in southeast Colorado always follows a heavy rain or one that is at least moderate and lasts for more than a day or two. We’ve had that occasion to speculate this past May and just this past Memorial Day weekend. It may have rained out a few picnics, but it was also nice to be able to linger indoors and just watch it come down.

The Community Collaborative Rain-Hail-Snow Network posts observations on a daily basis for each county in the country. A random sampling of how well we fared in southeast Colorado follows, with a synopsis for May of 2020 compared to 2021 and a precipitation total in inches for those two years from January to the end of May.

	Jan-May 2020	Jan-May 2021	May 2020	May 2021
Holly 0.1 ENE	3.34	6.79	2.04	4.05
Lamar 2.9 S	1.88	8.83	0.52	4.92
Wiley 0.3 S	1.51	6.74	0.53	3.30
Granada 0.2 NW	1.85	N/A	1.75	N/A
Springfield 0.5 NW	1.20	5.45	0.31	3.32
Walsh 5.4 SSW	0.91	5.56	0.30	4.65
McClave 4.0 W	1.55	4.55	0.73	2.38
Eads 0.45 E	1.37	7.91	0.06	4.50