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A wet October
By Bill Hankins
The Paris News
Published October 30, 2009
Downpours of rain and blowing winds have made October in Paris a record month.
The .82 inches of rain recorded Thursday at Texas Department of Transportation’s weather monitoring station on North Main pushed the monthly total for October to 15.92 inches.
That breaks the old record of 14.65 inches of rain that fell in October 1971, according to Leisha Hopkins of TxDOT.
With two months to go in 2009, measurements of rain across Northeast Texas continue to mount to record or near record levels.
Reports of rainfall this year at Cox Field put the total for the year at more than 64 inches.
TxDOT has recorded more than 60 inches to date, but others around Lamar County are reporting as much as 90 inches.
One unofficial total in Roxton showed more than 88 inches has fallen so far this year.
The record recorded rainfall in Lamar County is 74.84 inches that fell in 1957, a year of heavy flooding.
The heavy rains throughout this year also have caused heavy flooding in some parts of Delta, Lamar and Red River counties.
Rain gauges have been filled to overflowing more times this year than any other, and though Paris has no official 24-hour weather station, high rain totals have been recorded at Cox Field and TxDOT on several occasions.
In April, 5.03 inches of rain fell overnight on April 30, 6.92 inches fell in a 24-hour period on May 10.
National Weather Service officials said this week reporting of rainfall in Paris is sometimes questionable, and they have no accurate record of the rainfall here this year.
Meantime, the rain keeps falling across the area.
Thursday night a band of heavy rain mixed with hail and tornado threats, pushed northward, brushing Lamar County, threatening Choctaw county and causing heavy flooding in Pushmataha County in Oklahoma, where the threat of tornadoes caused schools to keep their students longer before allowing them to ride buses home.
The storms finally moved on past, but left more than four inches of rain before they departed.
The National Weather Service said the next few days will be cooler, because of a cold front that has crossed the area.
And for at least a few days Southeast Oklahoma and Northeast Texas could see something they have rarely seen this month — the sun.
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