According to Brenda Underdown, a local weather watcher, 2.2 inches of rain fell in the last 24 hours in Marion, with varying totals throughout the county.
And the rain was needed. The region was 6.4 inches of precipitation below normal for this time of year as of yesterday, according to the University of Kentucky Agriculture Weather Center station in Princeton. As of March 24, only 5.65 inches of rain had been recorded at the nearest weather station to Marion, less than half of the normal 12 inches expected by late March.
