IEM Daily Feature
Thursday, 02 September 2010

Precip Duration

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 06:00 AM

The featured chart presents the frequency of precipitation events as measured by the number of consecuative hours at least one hundredth of an inch is reported by the Des Moines weather sensor. Events lasting 10 or more hours are highlighted with the white crosses. The chart shows that long duration events are extremely rare during the summer time when storms tend to be more isolated and not associated with large storm complexes. The largest concentration of long duration events is in March and April.

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