ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) - As we flipped the calendar from May to June, it became clear that rainfall across the Big Country came in below average for what is typically one of our wetter months. Abilene officially received 2.80 inches of rain during May 2025. This was more than half-an-inch below the long-term average of 3.38 inches.

The wettest day of the month came on May 25, when 0.66 inches of rain fell just shy of an inch, but still enough to provide brief relief to our dry soil. When it comes to historical context, May in the Big Country has seen its fair share of extremes. The wettest May on record came in 1957, when a staggering 13.19 inches of rain soaked the region. Just one year before that, in 1956, we saw the driest May on record, with only 0.15 inches recorded.

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