Ticker for April 30, 1999

                
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(most Ticker subscribers got an inadvertant sneak preview of today's
Ticker.  Apologies for the double issue today.  The Ticker is now
accepting applications for the newly-vacant editor job.)


To Quote Benjamin Disraeli ...

Mark Twain said Disraeli said "There are three kinds of lies: lies,
damned lies, and statistics."  Today's Rainfall Update is a good
example.

Take a look at the maps for the water year precipitation and
percentage of normal.

http://www.mesonet.org/ocs/wateryeartot.html
http://www.mesonet.org/ocs/wateryearpct.html

If you toggle back and forth, it's pretty apparent that the high
percentages don't mesh with the higher rainfall totals.  Proof that
it doesn't take a whole lot of rainfall to be well above normal
during the cool season in northwestern Oklahoma.