April showers bring good rain totals

April is one of the year’s wetter months with 4.85 inches on average. Several rounds of showers during the month led to soaking precip which put a dent in the ongoing drought. To date the city is at 9.93 inches which is 2.38 inches behind the normal average of 11.31 inches.Rain fell on 18 days with the heaviest being 1.46 inches on the twenty-first.Four to five inch rains in the Lavaca River…