The May flowers may be suffering a bit because rain never really developed for the Jacksonville area last month.
Rainfall for the month barely crossed 2 and three quarter inches. A normal rainfall for May here in Jacksonville is a little over 4 and 8 tenths inches.
This despite the fact there was at least a trace of precipitation on 18 of the 31 days in May. We started the month with measurable rain on 5 of the first six days, but there was no rainfall that reached a quarter of an inch.
The heaviest rains occurred on the 20th and 21st, dropping a little over an inch and a third in that two day stretch. But, there’s only been a quarter of an inch since May 21st.
Rainfall checks in for the year at 10 and 7 tenths inches. Normal rainfall for the same period is over 4 inches more.
It was a bit warmer with an average reading in May with 62-point 6 degrees. That’s slightly up from the normal May temperature of just over 62 degrees.
The top reading was 91 on the 16th, and it was the only reading that hit 90. There was one night when the mercury hit 40 degrees. But there were 9 nights of below 50 degree readings.
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