Notice the headline wants you to get the impression it is warmer everywhere else...
New 30-year averages show wetter, cooler Sacramento out of step with rest of U.S.
By Bill Lindelof
New 30-year climate figures show that Sacramento is wetter and cooler, out of step with the rest of the country which has grown warmer.
United States rainfall and temperature normals are based on 30-year averages and are re-figured every decade. The new normals are for 1981-2010, replacing the 30-year set of 1971-2000.
Downtown Sacramento's average annual precipitation for the new three-decade period increased to 20.27 inches, up .40 of an inch from from 19.87. The rainfall increase can be tied to elimination of figures from 1971-80, which included significant drought years, and retention of the 1980s and 1990s, which included several wet ones.
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/08/03/3814012/new-30-year-averages-show-wetter.html#ixzz1U55lubXt
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