While it is still early for this April, heavy precipitation events have not been all that common so far this year. For Ames, the to date total for the month is running below long term average. If this April would come in much drier than average, it would be a recent exception for this month. The featured chart displays the percentage of the past 10 years that a given month was at or above 80% of the long term average accumulation for that month. Restating, nine of the past ten Aprils for Ames have seen precipitation totals at least 80% of long term average.

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