Wetting hours Aug. 23-30.

There were 49 total wetting hours at our AREC last week, bringing this year's total to 514. This is the lowest total accumulated wetting hours through the end of August since we started keeping track of wetting hours in 1994. The previous low was 521 hr for 1999. Totals for other years, except 1999, since 1994 were all more than 600 hr by now, ranging from 601 in 2005 to 967 in 2000. The total by this time last year was 808 hr.