While pulling together some data today for our latest Water Matters podcast, I was surprised by the dry streak we’ve been in. The last above average monsoon here was 2018. (Episode posts tomorrow – 6/23 – I’ll try to remember to update the post with a link. Update: the episode)
Also, I’ve been trying to up my data visualization game. For years I’ve had an R->ggplot work flow, doing the analysis in R and using it to generate most of the graphs I post on Inkstain as static image files. New LLM-based tools (I used Claude Code for this one) dramatically reduce the friction and make it possible (I originally wrote “make it easy,” but I’m still getting the hang of the form) to make them pointy-clicky.
Thanks for putting this info together – much appreciated.
I think could be worth plotting as “deviation from mean” rather than actual inches per monsoon season or year. A series of bars originating from the mean line, above or below the line. It might make it easier to “sense” the pattern (to the extent that there is one) since 1900.