Only four-hundredths of an inch of rain fell Thursday, but that was enough to clinch an all-time record for wet summers in Haines.
Between June 1 and Aug. 31, 16.31 inches of rain fell at the Haines airport, site of the Chilkat Valley’s oldest weather station, with records dating to 1940. The summer’s total eclipses a record for rain set during the same months in 1956 – 15.93 inches.
According to the National Weather Service,…
