New Orleans picked up 71.75 inches of rain in 2020. Measurable rain, 0.01 inch or more in a day, fell on 128 days at New Orleans Airport; the wettest day brought 4.76 inches on May 14, 2020. The 1991-2020 normal for a full year is 63.35 inches. The total landed 8.40 inches above the normal, which works out to 13% more. 2020 ranks 19th out of 78 complete years, wettest first, in a record that starts in 1948.
Monthly rain totals for 2020. Dark bars show measured amounts, light bars show the 1991-2020 normal for comparison.
Every day with measurable rain in 2020
Every day with measurable rain in 2020: New Orleans
Date
Rainfall
0.26″ inches
1.67″ inches
0.02″ inches
0.01″ inches
0.82″ inches
0.33″ inches
0.11″ inches
0.24″ inches
0.16″ inches
0.44″ inches
1.86″ inches
0.03″ inches
0.36″ inches
0.07″ inches
3.68″ inches
0.01″ inches
0.02″ inches
0.36″ inches
2.93″ inches
0.02″ inches
1.11″ inches
0.51″ inches
0.11″ inches
0.04″ inches
0.03″ inches
0.01″ inches
0.15″ inches
0.02″ inches
1.20″ inches
0.25″ inches
0.01″ inches
0.07″ inches
0.01″ inches
0.13″ inches
0.19″ inches
0.89″ inches
0.98″ inches
0.02″ inches
0.06″ inches
0.32″ inches
0.07″ inches
0.21″ inches
0.21″ inches
1.27″ inches
0.01″ inches
1.43″ inches
0.02″ inches
0.14″ inches
0.32″ inches
0.09″ inches
3.33″ inches
1.67″ inches
1.34″ inches
0.01″ inches
0.53″ inches
0.17″ inches
0.54″ inches
0.01″ inches
0.07″ inches
1.99″ inches
1.68″ inches
0.20″ inches
0.40″ inches
2.12″ inches
0.62″ inches
0.45″ inches
0.23″ inches
0.62″ inches
2.01″ inches
0.98″ inches
0.71″ inches
0.11″ inches
2.75″ inches
0.01″ inches
0.77″ inches
1.69″ inches
0.24″ inches
0.04″ inches
0.89″ inches
0.01″ inches
0.43″ inches
0.43″ inches
0.23″ inches
0.09″ inches
0.57″ inches
4.76″ inches
0.07″ inches
0.88″ inches
0.79″ inches
1.21″ inches
0.03″ inches
0.10″ inches
0.57″ inches
2.38″ inches
0.22″ inches
0.05″ inches
0.01″ inches
0.05″ inches
0.01″ inches
0.03″ inches
0.06″ inches
0.01″ inches
0.78″ inches
0.02″ inches
0.11″ inches
0.03″ inches
0.01″ inches
0.01″ inches
1.24″ inches
1.05″ inches
0.19″ inches
0.16″ inches
0.01″ inches
0.36″ inches
0.91″ inches
0.01″ inches
0.07″ inches
0.09″ inches
0.57″ inches
0.34″ inches
0.06″ inches
0.24″ inches
0.05″ inches
0.60″ inches
0.17″ inches
1.85″ inches
0.35″ inches
0.02″ inches
Daily totals come from New Orleans Airport, which appears in GHCN-Daily with records going back to 1948. Station observations are from GHCN-Daily, with a 1-3 day lag and quality checks by NOAA.
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