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Since Oct. 1, we’ve had a total of 0.58 inches of rain at Albuquerque’s National Weather Service gauge, out at the airport. How does that rank?
Oct. 1 is the start of the “water year”, a time period used by water managers because it captures a full fall-winter precipitation accumulation, followed by the spring-summer water use season. According to Deirdre Kann at the National Weather Service, this is the third driest start to a water year for Albuquerque since record-keeping began in the early 1900s:
Dry start to Albuquerque 2012-13 water year. Source: National Weather Service
The average is a bit less than 3 inches. 1903-04 was the driest on record at 0.3, and 1995-96 was 0.56. In 1905-06, the wettest year on record, we were already up to 6 inches by now.
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