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calendar   Thursday - September 29, 2011

Not Again

More Floods In NJ



Sure, we got hit pretty bad from Irene and then the deluge from tropical storm Lee. But when the flood waters went down, the rains continued. It’s been the rainiest summer I can remember, and it isn’t over yet. With the water tables so high it doesn’t take much to push us back into flooding, but dear old Mother Nature has been extra generous and given us “lots” when we didn’t even want “not much”.

We’re in flood alarm again right now. We’ve had at least 4” of rain since yesterday, and the big cloudburst last night was the proverbial camel’s last straw. So another day of minor flooding, another couple of roads closed, another few days of detours and inconvenience. Great.

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a few miles upstream on our local river



In Morris County, a woman waited for rescuers on the roof of her car as an overflowing creek in Flanders breached its banks.

Elsewhere in Morris County, the floodwaters gushed so suddenly they ripped up the asphalt along Schooley’s Mountain Road in Washington Township.

In Sussex County, Sparta High School students learned a new term — flood day — when they were dismissed early because of inundated roads.

Across western and central New Jersey today, already water-weary communities faced a new round of flooding. Just a month after Hurricane Irene drowned parts of the state, overnight rainfall caused waterways to swell and overtake their banks. Residents once again faced road closures, detours and water rescues.

The dangerous conditions are expected to continue tomorrow. This evening, the National Weather Service issued flash flood watches for Morris, Somerset and Hunterdon counties through tomorrow afternoon.

Meteorologists said the heavy rains pummeling New Jersey could bring a second successive month of record precipitation.

The totals are nothing short of epic, said David Robinson, the state climatologist. The average statewide rainfall — about 22 inches since August 1 — appears to be a once-in-a-millennium epochal event.

“What we have recorded recently is so far off the charts that statistically it looks like it’s something that occurs every 1,000 years,” Robinson said of the rainfall totals for August and September.

New Jersey’s precipitation is usually evenly distributed over all 12 months, Robinson said. This year, the state has received the equivalent of two-thirds of its annual rainfall in the last two months alone.

At this rate, New Jersey will likely break the state record of 59.98 inches of precipitation, set in 1996, Robinson said. So far, rainfall statewide has averaged about 51 inches.

And more wet weather is on the way.

I am amazed we haven’t smashed all the old records by now. Don’t forget we had more than double our quota of snow this past winter as well.  Rutgers publishes some monthly precip numbers going back to 1895, but I don’t know where they get their data from. Their numbers don’t show anything atypical about last winter’s snows (we had 42.8" of snow in January alone, after getting half a foot in the blizzard right after Christmas), and their August rain numbers are low by half a foot or more. I guess the numbers are normalized across the state. All I know is that it has been soggy here in one way or another since last Thanksgiving. And I’m really tired of it.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 09/29/2011 at 10:32 AM   
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