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12.27.11 Wettest Year On Record!!!

This is where Burlington began the day Tuesday, at the #2 spot:

With only a handful of days left in the year, Burlington began getting rain, sleet, and snow mixing in at 4 pm Tuesday.  As I write this blog at 8 pm BTV still hasn't technically broken the wettest year, but it's going to happen :)

Only needing 0.15" from the recent storm, Burlington will wind up with about 0.3-0.5" by the time Wednesday rolls around.  So it will likely be on December 27th that the wettest year record was claimed.  These numbers (by the way) are from the Burlington International Airport. 

This wettest year record had a lot of help.  In April and May Burlington had the wettest months ever.  The Queen City had the 3rd-snowiest Meteorological Winter too (Dec-Jan-Feb).  It also had the 3rd-biggest March snowstorm ever.  It's just fitting that we would get wettest YEAR too.

Wettest year records are being broken across Vermont.  It's tough to get climate data for every place in the area, but here's where we do have it:

                   TOTAL        RECORD            AVERAGE           DEPARTURE

Burlington   50.27          50.42 (1998)      36.82                +13.45

Montpelier  52.97          48.65 (2006)       37.27               +15.70
 
Massena    30.88          47.35 (1993)       34.96               -4.08

St. J          50.03          49.42 (1983)       39.50              +10.53

Mt. Mansfield 86.41      91.98 (1983)

Saranac Lake   43.13                               37.59              +5.54
  
Springfield  53.66                                    43.95               +9.71

Courtesy: National Weather Service: Burlington