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Areas of Severe Thunderstorms and Excessive Rainfall Sunday

Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms may pose a risk for damaging wind gusts over the Carolinas, southeast Virginia, and the Tennessee Valley Sunday afternoon then the northern Plains from late afternoon into Sunday night. Monsoonal thunderstorms may cause locally considerable flash, urban, and small stream flooding in the Southwest U.S. the next few days. Read More >

August Top Ten Precipitation Records
1930-2024
Midland, Texas
Average Monthly Precipitation = 1.72 in
Rank Wettest Year Rank Driest Year
1  5.92 2006 1  0.00 1936
2  5.34 1934 2  0.03 2009
3  4.43 1974 3  0.05 1999
4  4.37 1993 4  0.06 2000
5  4.06 2022 5  0.08 1935
6  3.94 1986 6  0.09 1943
 7  3.84  1958 7    0.17 1  1967
 8  3.80  1972 7    0.17 1  2002
 9  3.76  1942 9  0.18   1953
  10  3.44  2001 10    0.20     2020

Footnotes:

  1. 0.17 occurred two times and ranked seventh  driest