The Salem Water Plant is reporting just over an inch more precipitation in 2022 compared to 2021.
The final yearly precipitation for 2022 is 47.91 inches compared to 46.72 inches in 2021. The wettest month of the year was July with 9.87 inches of rain and the driest month of the year was last January at just 1.4 inches. For December, precipitation was 2.8 inches compared to 3.58 inches in December a year ago.
Temperatures in 2022 ranged from a high of 98 to a low of minus 7. That compared to a high of 97 and a low of 3 below zero in 2021. In December temperatures ranged from a high of 60 to a low of minus 7.
In Centralia, the water plant reports total precipitation for the year was 44.47 inches, down about two inches from the 2021 total of 46.59 inches. Centralia recorded 2.64 inches of precipitation in December.
