Inland Northwest Hay Weather

Back in July during our hot stretch of days, I looked to see if there was any trend in how hot our summers were.  You can view that blog here . In that article, I also took a quick look at precipitation trends for the the summer, that is, for June, July and August.  But given our long wait for autumn rains this year, I wanted to take a little closer look at the warm season rains. As we've discussed before, June is really a springtime month in the Inland Northwest, although there have been some recent exceptions.  Our dry season is definitely the three months of July, August and September.   See the green bars in the graph below. And each year it's a common question: when will the fall rains arrive, ending the wildfire and dust seasons?  Sometimes that's a widespread event. But most years are like this year.  Some areas received rain, while others are still waiting.  Here's the map of yesterday's rainfall. So has there been any trend with precipitation in our dry sea