To call our continuing rain anything except abnormal is to be dishonest.  To wit, from NOAA regarding the storms now directly overhead:

RAINFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES AN HOUR IS OCCURRING WITH THIS LINE OF STORMS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES IS EXPECTED ACROSS DALLAS COUNTY THROUGH 8 PM.

This after the same occurred just a few hours ago.

Did I mention I live in Dallas County?

Did I mention we’ve had flooding rains since this morning?

More accurately, did I mention we’ve had flooding rains for months now?

This is not normal, poppets…by any stretch of the imagination.  This is rather unusual weather for us.  By now, it should be hot, humid, miserable, unbearable, and quite summer-like.

But it’s not.  It’s tropical with humidities much higher than normal, rainfall that never ends and visits in deluges of biblical proportions, and thunderstorms that roil and boil their way through with violence and upheaval.

Drought?  Not any more, and that regardless of what others might say.

Now the meteorological pendulum has swung in the opposite direction.  We have torrential downpours almost every single day, if not multiple times per day (like, uh, today!).

There is absolutely nothing normal about this weather, about the weather we’ve had for months now.