Even with the cold and snowy winter, this year is still running below average for precipitation through March 2, but too much rain is on the way too quickly. Hey, it’s Storm Center 7 Meteorologist Ryan Marando.
Since the start of the year, Dayton has received around 3.45″ of water precipitation. The average from January 1 to March 2 is 5.63″, so we need the rain.
Most of the Miami Valley is not under any sort of drought conditions except the northern counties of our area, like Mercer and Auglaize counties.
February was actually a relatively dry month. Dayton only got 1.44″ of water equivalent of precipitation. That makes this last February the 20th driest on record!…