2022 is in the lead for the driest year San Antonio has experienced so far

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2022 is in the lead for the driest year San Antonio has experienced so far
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🌧 Only 8.20″ of rain has officially been recorded in San Antonio this year

When you tally up the numbers of how much rain we’ve officially recorded from January 1 to September 30, the total for 2022 comes out to only 8.20″. That makes this year the driest year that we’ve seen in San Antonio to date, followed by 8.88″ that was recorded in 1917 and 9.50″ in 1954.

On average, September is our second wettest month in a given year, with an average total of 3.88″. This September came in well below that number, with only 0.98″ officially recorded at San Antonio International. 0.98" of rainfall has been recorded in San Antonio officially throughout the month of September, almost 3" below the monthly average.

In fact, most months in 2022 have come in well short of where they climatologically should have. For example, our wettest month of the year on average, May, came in 3.54″ short with only 0.86″ recorded. Overall, San Antonio is over 16″ below the average amount of rain for the year, to date.

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