NOT TO RAIN ON YOUR PARADE…
But it has rained during The Wearin’
of the Green. Based on pictures, TV
scripts, newspaper articles and the
information from NOAA, it has been
really damp four times. And there
have been a handful of years with
trace amounts of mostly drizzle.
In Ireland, it rains often, especially
on the west coast. There are several
phrases to describe the intensity of
rain: A soft day, spitting rain, pissing
rain, etc. In Killarney they say, “if you
cannot see the mountains, it’s raining. If
you can, it’s about to start raining.”
1991 – Cool and damp. The skies
opened early in the morning. The
spitting rain continued for much of
the day. More than an inch of rain was
reported at Baton Rouge Metro Airport.
2001 – Cool and dry for the most part.
Nearly the entire parade cleared the end
of the route before the skies unloaded. A
made it over the overpass.
2009 – Cool and wet. A cold front
stalled over Baton Rouge the day
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before the parade bringing more than
an inch of rain into the overnight hours.
Saturday morning started off as a Soft
Day but around noon, the Pissing Rain
was in the back of the lineup, you likely
got soaked.
2016 – More than seven inches of
rain fell in the two days leading up to
Friday night and into Saturday morning.
It stopped around 6:00 a.m. No rain at
the start at 10:00 a.m. We thought we
were in the clear, but an hour later we
got dumped on. It didn’t really let up.
2018 – There were pockets of
bright sunshine throughout the
for the possibility of precipitation with
makeshift tarps and tents covering their
crew. It looked ominous closer to the
popped soaking the last quarter of the
parade route.
Regardless of the weather, the
parade rolls at 10 a.m. rain or shine!
YEAR HIGH LOW PRECIP.
3/15/1986 76 51 0
3/14/1987 68 37 0
3/12/1988 81 62 0.02”
3/18/1989 84 64 0
3/12/1990 71 45 0
3/16/1991 58 52 1.15”
3/14/1992 75 39 0
3/13/1993 46 35 0
3/12/1994 67 36 0
3/18/1995 80 51 0
3/16/1996 82 68 trace
3/15/1997 58 48 trace
3/14/1998 68 40 trace
3/13/1999 73 48 2.23”
3/18/2000 74 58 0.78”
3/17/2001 55 48 0.05”
3/16/2002 87 69 0
3/15/2003 76 49 0
3/13/2004 73 51 0
3/12/2005 79 42 0
3/18/2006 62 55 0
3/17/2007 68 39 0
3/15/2008 86 65 0
3/14/2009 61 53 1.23”
3/13/2010 68 48 0
3/19/2011 82 58 0
3/17/2012 83 60 0
3/16/2013 76 51 0
3/15/2014 73 59 0.51”
3/13/2015 77 61 0
3/19/2016 71 59 0.72”
3/17/2017 82 53 0
3/16/2018 79 67 1.18”
3/15/2019 63 50 trace
2018: The last floats
crossing the overpass
2016: Walk-On’s Float is
prepared for rain every year
1991: Denis, Kevin, Maria and Pat Shingleton
2009
WEATHER HISTORY
May the wind always
be at your back.
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