Die Karte zeigt den Prozentsatz des Jahresniederschlags, der vom 16. April bis zum 15. Oktober fällt, was in den meisten angrenzenden Vereinigten Staaten ungefähr der wärmeren Jahreshälfte entspricht. In den blauen Gebieten fallen im Winter mehr Niederschläge als im Sommer; In roten Gebieten ist der Sommer feuchter als der Winter.
Die Karte basiert auf den Klimanormalwerten 1991–2020 der Oregon State University PRISM-Klimadatensatz.
Von crosscountrycoder
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Is LA zero precipitation between those dates?
Kinda resembles the voting map minus the northeast lol
I remember, growing up in California, we would do these seasonal coloring things as kids. The summer page was always green grass growing, flowers, everything in full bloom, etc. I was like what? (looking out at the dry grass and oaks behind the school). Then in winter, our grass was green and wildflowers, but my coloring book said bare branches and snow.
great map, as a californian I always do a double take when I remember it can rain in the summer in other places
Born and raised in Oregon, you could pretty much count on it almost always raining from October to May, and then June-September being bone dry. It was such a mind fuck to travel to the east coast for the first time and have it basically rain every day during July.
I grew up in western OR. In college I found out that the rest of the country didn’t have dry summers. It kinda blew my mind.
In the Deep South, the summers have rain but it’s usually just scattered showers, an hour here and there. In the winter, it’ll rain for 4 days and then let up for about a week and a half and it’ll hit again.
One of my favorite little weather factoids about the American West is that Seattle averages less precipitation in July and August than Tucson, Arizona, because of the summer monsoons in SE Arizona (which really only affect the more mountainous areas, so Tucson typically gets a lot of monsoon rain, Phoenix gets less, and Yuma gets very little, and places like Sierra Vista and Bisbee get even more).
Huh, its kinda interesting that the new england coast tends to be drier in the summertime. Which matches my experience pretty well.
Once upon a time, there was a magical place where it never rained…. the end!
I had no idea we had drought season in the US, having only lived in the whiteish parts of the map. That seems like a thing that only happens in the jungle or the dessert, not the coast. I can’t only imagine an African storyteller saying, „And then the rains came, and came, until the rivers were all filled up and everything was renewed again.“ But Seattle?
When I originally looked at my area (MA, which is white) I thought that can’t be right. Summers are pretty dry. But then I realized the “warm months” included April and May (not warm), which explains it. Basically just rains until June and then it’s nice.
What happens around the mountains to cause this?
Yeah, I always noticed this as a kid. I grew up in California, but my parents would bring my brother and I back to the east coast each summer to see our family where they grew up. We were shocked it was raining in July. In California, it basically only rains from late October- early April.
Fascinating!
Nice! A map devoid of extreme politics.
Rainfall in Western Washington is like a smiley face. Starting in January it’s high and going down until the end of September, then straight back up starting in October til December and so on.
This is a cool and interesting map
Grateful Dead. Coincidence? I think not.
I grew up on the central coast of CA. People are always astonished when I tell them that it basically doesn’t rain from the end of March to the first week of November.
Most of the precipitation in Eastern Kansas is during Spring/Autumn with Summer and Winter being the dry seasons.
Yeah, in Fresno during the summer it’s rare to even see a cloud in the sky let alone rain.
I’m from the upper Midwest. remember the first time I went to the west coast for a long period of time was during a summer in college. I had to go to Washington state near Tacoma for the month of July, and was going to spend most of it outdoors. I was thinking “Aww shit it rains a lot there, it’s gonna be wet the entire time”
but it was in fact amazing perfect weather the entire time
That lake effect snow is puttin in WERK