Category: U.S. Annual Precipitation

I designed and implemented a C# computer language application to model the precipitation data found on the NOAA website:

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov

I used the latest recommended data for time period 1895 to 2017. The empirical modeling paradigm I used was simple linear regression. My model goes out to the year 2300. The key formulas used by the model are:

See the website:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_linear_regression

Some plots of the contiguous U.S. precipitation are shown below. The climate is getting wetter thus some parts of the U.S.maybe more prone to floods.