[speaker001:] up in New York
[speaker002:] freezing
[speaker001:] is it dry or wet
[speaker002:] um it's um it's it's been pretty dry yeah it it rained but we had a problem with a little bit of a water shortage but it rained for a bit but the last about three four days I guess you probably had a cold front last week but uh they said that it was coming across the country but the last few days has been like really cold it was down to about thirteen degrees um yesterday morning when I woke up it's starting to warm up a little bit now but we haven't got any snow yet just a couple of sprinkles here and there
[speaker001:] well we haven't had cold weather we've just had rain and rain and more rain this is our third consecutive day of rain and the weather man is promising us at least four more days of rain
[speaker002:] is it you say in Dallas
[speaker001:] yeah in Dallas and we're on the verge and it's going to happen either today or tomorrow of setting an all time record for most rain in a year
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] our normal rainfall is twenty nine inches and we're already up to over fifty inches
[speaker002:] wow that's wild
[speaker001:] and it's and it's coming down and coming down it's it is been raining all year at an incredible pace
[speaker002:] that's pretty wild
[speaker001:] I know we're about to float away
[speaker002:] it's usually pretty I guess twenty nine is pretty dry it's Dallas is kind of in the desert huh
[speaker001:] well it's not really in desert the desert starts about fifty miles west of here is where the desert sort of starts but twenty nine inches is is our normal we have very dry summers and uh spring time is usually fairly wet but this time of year is fairly dry and we're having spring time rain right now
[speaker002:] well how how cold has it been
[speaker001:] oh it's uh pretty warm it's about fifty three degrees or so uh so it's not cold but it's just wet
[speaker002:] yeah I lived in Oregon for three years so I know what that's about
[speaker001:] what is it warm but wet up there
[speaker002:] yeah I used to it wasn't super warm during the winter it would be you know forty five fifty degrees most of the time but always a sprinkling type rain uh in New York you get when it rains you get like real showers sometimes you never got that out there but uh but here it it it rains about forty I guess about forty two forty two inches a year yeah I know we had a little bit of a a drought this year as a matter of fact because the water supply in our reservoirs was a little low
[speaker001:] well we're not having any problem like that the last time we had drought around here was nineteen eighty when we really got very little rain but since then it's been normal and then this is about the fourth year in a row where we've had above average rain last year we had about forty five inches and which is well above and now what we're having this year so it's been tremendous rainfall
[speaker002:] does it do any damage I mean you have floods or anything like that or
[speaker001:] uh some areas have had some flooding the worst flooding occurs in the spring time when some when our main river around here the Trinity River goes over its banks and causes damage but uh for the most part they've been trying to deal with that although the traffic is horrible
[speaker002:] when it rains
[speaker001:] when it rains oh yes everything comes to a a standstill with the rain this morning it took me thirty minutes extra to get to work
[speaker002:] yeah  yeah yeah I found that I used to commute I used to live in New York City and commute out to Long Island which is in the suburbs and uh it was normally about an hour and fifteen minutes hour and a half drive it'd take there was really a lot of traffic but it was like pretty good flowing traffic and then it would get really bad when when it rain together you know takes whatever
[speaker001:] is your is your weather now normal for this time of year or is it different
[speaker002:] uh yeah it's pretty normal today is pretty normal today it's probably about thirty thirty five degree well maybe thirty degrees out now and it's supposed to go up to forty and then that's about normal we don't we don't usually stay below freezing uh for long periods of time uh you know we have cold spells that that happen but but aside from that usually the temperature probably average temperature is thirty five forty degrees during the winter so this is kind of normal
[speaker001:] well we had we had early freezes here we had our a normal freeze is around November twentieth and we had our freeze this year on November second and between the second and the tenth of November in those eight days we set record lows six of eight days and so we thought we were going to really have a cold winter but since then it's the temperatures have been normal it's just that the rain has been incredible
[speaker002:] yeah that's what happened here last year we had we had uh a lot of cold early on and then it and then the winter was relatively mild I think they I think it's going to be a cold winter this year though because of that volcano in uh
[speaker001:] oh in the Philippines
[speaker002:] in the Philippines that's supposed to like cover up the uh or rather raise the warming layers and stuff like that so it's probably going to be a couple degrees cooler
[speaker001:] well I don't know what I don't know if that volcano caused all this rain but something's been causing all this rain
[speaker002:] but uh it could it could it could cause rain I'm not sure but