It’s official: Weather service says April 2011 the wettest April recorded
By JIM BROOKS
Nelson County Gazette
Monday, May 2, 2011, 1:15 a.m. — If you think April was a month full of rain, you are right: The National Weather Service office confirmed that last month was the wettest April on record for the Louisville office coverage area, which covers Southern Indiana and Central Kentucky.
The weather service says it was also a record-breaking month for rainfall in Lexington and Frankfort — but not in Bowling Green, where the rainfall totals fell just over an inch short of breaking the 1912 record.
Louisville’s monthly raintall total of 13.97 inches easily topped the record for 1970 April rainfall total of 11.10 inches. In Frankfort, April’s 13.95 inches shattered the 1948 record of 9.28 inches; Bowling Green’s 12.7 inches of rain easily broke its April 1970 record of 9.3 inches.
None of the April rainfall totals came close to breaking the totals for the wettest month on record — three of which (Louisville, Bowling Green and Frankfort) were set in January 1937.
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