Just an update. Last Wednesday’s storm dropped a torrential 0.04 inches of precipitation on Albuquerque (officially). That brings the total for the two times it has rained* in the past 13 weeks to 0.14 inches.
(* Actually it mostly snowed both times; 1.2 inches total.)
Astoria, OR (where I live), has had rain on all but one of the past 44 days in a row, with no end in sight for at least the next week. We’d give anything to send some of it to the Southwest! (We’re at somewhere between 35-40 inches in that amount of time.) They say we can both blame La Nina for our disproportionate precipitation patterns. If this keeps up, I might actually have to break out my umbrella.
Here in Portland we have endured the wettest January in three decades.