If it seems like we have had a lot of rain to start 2019, you are correct. In fact, as we reach the midway point of the month of February, records are already being set. With just half of the month gone, it’s already the fifth wettest February on record in Mountain Home, and the area is over 8 inches above average for the year.
So far, 6.94 inches of rain has been recorded in February at KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot studios, the official reporting station in Mountain Home for the National Weather Service. That makes 2019 the fifth wettest February ever recorded and only 2.37 inches away from being the all-time wettest. The average rainfall for February is an even 3 inches.
Chris Buonanno with the National Weather Service in North Little Rock says a weather phenomenon off the Pacific coast has been helping the wet start to the year including the over 4 inches of rain that fell earlier this week.
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Buonanno says the rest of February looks like it could be wet but things should return to normal in the months that follow.
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So far this year, with 5.42 inches of rain in January, a total of 12.36 inches of rain has fallen. Normal rainfall through Feb. 14th is 4.24 inches, meaning we are 8.12 inches above normal for the year to date.
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