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These visualizations represent the frequency of the top 75 significant words from tonight’s State of the Union Address, as reported in the Washington Post. The visualization was prepared using the Wordle web service.
See the full text of the speech below.
December 2011 was the third driest on record in San Francisco. San Francisco rainfall records date all the way back to 1849. Several other San Francisco Bay Area locations experienced their second driest December. In addition… December 2011 was the driest on record in Salinas.
Locationdecember 2011 record driest/ normal Dec rainfall year rainfall
Santa Rosa 0.09 2nd driest 0.00 1989 6.19 Kentfield 0.12 2nd driest 0.00 1989 9.91 San Francisco 0.14 3rd driest 0.00 1876,1989 4.56 Oakland 0.08 2nd driest 0.00 1989 4.58 San Jose 0.08 2nd driest 0.04 1989 2.61 Santa Cruz 0.13 2nd driest 0.05 1989 5.68
Location December 2011 previous normal Dec rainfall record rainfall
Salinas 0.05 driest 0.07 1989 2.44
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- precipitation climatology ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jul 01- Jul 01- Jul 01- Jul 01- Jan 2 Jan 2 Jan 2 Jun 30 station 2012 pon 2011 pon normal normal ------------------ ----------- ----------- ------- ------- SFO int`L aprt 2.87 37 9.70 124 7.85 20.65 Oakland aprt 3.07 38 10.67 132 8.07 20.81 Moffett Field 1.77 34 5.77 110 5.26 14.68 San Jose aprt 1.55 30 5.30 101 5.24 14.90 Santa Rosa aprt 4.46 30 19.61 132 14.84 32.20 Salinas aprt 3.31 78 6.93 162 4.27 12.83 San Francisco DWNTN 3.37 36 12.76 136 9.40 23.65
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Pon – % of normal follows the July 01 – Jan 1Â amounts.
See: http://www.drought.gov/portal/server.pt/community/drought_indicators/us_drought_monitor
Credit: G-100, Introductory Geology, Chuck DeMets and Clark Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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