Below Aveage Rainfall

Since the start of 2009, Salisbury is significantly below average in the way of precipitation. During the month of January rainfall totals coming in just above an inch of rain at 1.17" with February even drier at just .24"! In the month of April slightly better conditions in the way of precipitation totals coming in at 4.44", but still below average. Since the start of this year not once has Salisbury been at or above average in the way of rainfall. Finally, starting off the month of May with above average rain totals thus far at almost 2" that is more than January, February and March put together. In the past 4 months, we have had a total rainfall amounts of 9.19" and normal value for the year should be 17.13", that is 7.94" below average. So with the current weather pattern, keeping rain chances in the forecast for Salisbury maybe we will break the current below average rainfall pattern in the next month.