2013 is the driest year on record for San Marcos Pass

I've been crunching numbers today instead of looking for insects and wildflowers. I collected data about San Marcos Pass rainfall from the Santa Barbara County Hydrology website. I got the data into Excel, and then rearranged it a bit to show Jan-Dec calendar years rather than the usual Sep-Aug rain years.

This chart shows total rainfall per calendar year (Jan-Dec) on San Marcos Pass since records began in 1966. If you look at the bar for 2013 on the very right, you will see that this is indeed the driest calendar year by quite a margin. We had just 7.3 inches of rain in all of 2013, well below our average of almost 35 inches. The next lowest is 12.6 inches in 1989. No wonder it feels so dry! I've seen in the news that this is the driest year ever recorded in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Well, it is on San Marcos Pass as well.

There is still hope - see my [Previous] chart.

Taken in: United States / California (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 2014

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