It’s been a pretty wet year in many communities across Kentucky and records are falling. It appears repeated weather patterns are partly responsible for feet of rain falling throughout 2011. Some records for precipitation over 2011 have already been set. Just as a couple of examples, the wettest years on record have occurred in Louisville and in Baxter near Harlan in eastern Kentucky. Jackson Meteorologist Shawn Harley says several east Kentucky communities are experiencing top five rainfall amounts.
He says it’s just been a rainy year.
“We were in a persistent wet pattern, particularly back in the spring and we got into a situation where we had repeated rounds of thunderstorms especially last spring..April was a very wet month,” said Harley.
Harley doesn’t believe the wet year can be chalked up to ‘climate change.’
“You can never relate a particular event or even a particular year to climate change….it’s not that things are not related, but there’s really not way you can tie in a particular event or particular year with any type of climate change,” added Harley.
Harley isn’t looking for a lot of snow this winter. He says recent patterns seem to indicate a fairly mild winter across most sections of Kentucky.
