![]() In Cincinnati, 2011 shattered the previous record. This year, 54.96 inches of rain fell in Columbus, which is 1.8 inches more than what fell in 1990, the previous Columbus record year, according to the National Weather Service.Ĭolumbus was not the only city to break its all-time record. In Columbus, 2011 set the mark for the wettest year recorded. “A lot of stations in Ohio either set new records, set all-time records for precipitation, or they’re in second place,” Rogers said. ![]() Rogers said the numbers in Cheviot were not unusual for this year, as many stations broke records. “That record was set in 1870, and this year there is a station down in Hamilton County called Cheviot, and they have to still verify their records, but they got 76.24 inches.” “(The record) used to be 70.82 inches of rain at a place called Little Mountain in Lake County,” Rogers said. That is 5.42 inches more than the previous 141-year record. Unofficially, the Cheviot station experienced 76.24 inches of rainfall in 2011. Rogers said there will soon be a meeting to ordain Cheviot, Ohio, which is a suburb of Cincinnati, as the official record holder. “After a year that has seen abnormally high rainfall across the state of Ohio (particularly the southwestern portion), several observing sites have unofficially surpassed the record for the highest yearly precipitation total in Ohio,” the statement said. The National Weather Service reiterated that statement. Currently we are debating, weather service and some of the climate people, just who is going to own the new Ohio precipitation record,” Rogers said. “We set a year-long precipitation record in 2011. Jeff Rogers, an atmospheric science professor at Ohio State, said while the results are unofficial and pending data verification, a weather monitoring station in Hamilton County broke the all-time record for precipitation in Ohio. Ohio citizens made full use of their umbrellas in 2011, as the especially rainy year set precipitation records. Weather records rain down on Ohio in 2011
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