ST. LOUIS — Your Weather First Fact for July 20 is one that tells the story of just how dry it has been. We have not seen a month of average/above average rainfall since the month of March.
While on the surface, that seems like a long time, but maybe not something we need to pay attention to much. But you have to remember how April-July is the wettest period of our entire calendar year.
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With a few days to go in the month, we are sitting at 5 inches of rain officially at Lambert. Our average for the month of July is 4 inches."
While some of us have seen more locally, I explain why there are many areas still in a drought in the video above.
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