I had 44.7 inches. That's my highest total (of the six years I've kept records) and more than double what we had last year (20.2"). I cannot even imagine what 76 inches would be like.

Michelle

At my humble abode in South Tulsa, I received over 68" in 2015. This is by far the highest I've had in my 15 years here. It sure beats my near 30" the past 2 years (each).

Lee

At our farm we have had:

2011: 30.05

2012: 23.18

2013: 39.05

2014: 29.06

2015: still missing 3 months of data but 46.12 with 3 months missing. Probably approaching 70 inches.

Our rainfall this past year was slightly under 78" once the last bit of ice melted and ran down into the rain gauge. Love County's official mesonet record for our county 2015 is almost 19" over the previous record. It is insane to think about a record annual rainfall amount falling by such a huge amount. Our average annual rainfall is 38 to 39", so we pretty much doubled that in 2015. I hope 2016 is drier, but that doesn't mean I am hoping for drought....just hoping for less flooding. At times, we had a lot more rain in one event at our house than our local mesonet station did, and at times we had a lot less. In the end? Our rainfall total was very close to the Mesonet station's annual cumulative total despite some wide differences at various points during the year.

Around 9 a.m. this morning, we got the word that the last highway in Love County closed because of the recent flooding (Scenic Hwy 77 at the Lake Murray Spillway) just reopened to traffic again. It had been closed down since December 27th. Prior to that, I remember it was closed for a similar period in late Nov/early Dec and also was closed down several times in the May-June-July time frame. It is very rare for this to happen once in a year, so having it happen multiple times was amazing. We're hoping the highway flooding is over for a while. Though I hate to admit it, there really is such a thing as too much rain, and large portions of OK have had too much in the last year. I'd still rather have too little than too much. You can water to make up for drought, but there's not much you can do to fight heavily saturated soils.

I have not totaled our year yet. Probable don't want to know. My husband always said he would rather fight drought than water, you just forget how bad dry can be. I would like to see a little dry for a while. They say after an El Niño the water turns off and we get zip, so I guess this summer will be bad???

I just read an article today that said during the last large rain event in late December, Grand Lake rose 7 feet in 36 hours.

My rain gauge is using the 4WD to back out of a short level drive at the top of the slope. right now i'm grateful for most of the garden being on the slope. hopefully, we won't need to wait until it's too hot to put anything into the ground.

stockergal, I have had it up to "here" (grin) with rainfall, but that's because we had a ridiculous amount. It is almost, but not quite, enough to make me wish for drought.

Often, but certainly not always, a La Nina cycle will follow El Nino, but we don't know if or when that will happen. We have to just hang in there and watch El Nino and see how long its effect lasts this winter/spring. The scientists who track Sea Surface Temperatures and other such signs that help them understand what the ENSO cycle is doing will alert us when they see signs that El Nino is ending. Then we still have to wait and see if the next thing we will get is a neutral ENSO or if we go into La Nina, which does tend to leave us hot and dry. Some years it seems like we go from El Nino to La Nina type conditions very quickly, but then other years, we don't go into the drastic heat/drough of La Nina after El Nino is over. It just isn't as simple as La Nina always closely following El Nino as too many other patterns and cycles factor into what we get.

Carol, That's a big rise awfully fast, but I'm not surprised. Heavy rainfall has caused similar big rises in the last year on lakes and rivers down here too.

Bon, That is too funny. Our 300' long driveway as been a stream of water flowing downhill for about 18 months now so I am ready for it to dry up so we can do some badly needed repair to the eroded areas. On the other hand, friends of ours who had repairs made after the November flooding? Well, now they have new repairs to make after the December flooding. Sometimes it pays to not actually fix those wet, eroded spots too early because maybe the rain is not done with us yet. I am tired of stomping around in muck boots in wet clay though.

So far, we really haven't had much precipitation down here in Love County in 2016, and I like that. January usually is our driest month here, so it is somewhat comforting to me that it has been pretty dry so far. I hope that is a good sign that some sort of normal rainfall patterns might be returning soon. Haven't we all had enough rain to last us a good while? Lately our dewpoint has been so low that rainfall is out of the question, and I'm okay with that!

Dawn