Yesterday's daily feature was a map presenting the minimum number of year to date days a given long term climate site took to reach its yearly climatology. This was in response to a location in California already exceeding its average yearly total. Since the start date of 1 January is a bit arbitrary, today's featured map presents the minimum number of days over any period to accumulate a year's worth of precipitation. This change normalizes the map somewhat and again, some interesting patterns can be seen. Iowa is shown in the 90 to 180 day range, which for an approximate yearly average of 30 some inches, would equate to three or more months in a row averaging ten inches per month. This maps has some neat regional patterns and again California sticks out for having sites in the one to seven day range!

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