Concord Ledger

After a New Hampshire drought that lasted months, the Granite State finally experienced the opposite extreme with record levels of rain in July.

In Concord, 13.04 inches of rain was measured, making it the rainiest July since 1868 and the second-rainiest month on record for the capital city, trailing only October 2005, WMUR9 reported.

“The heavy rainfall has been somewhat isolated, really, in the southern half of the state," Justin Arnott, meteorologist with the National Weather Service, told the Concord Monitor. "It doesn’t need more rain. More rain is actually not a good thing." 

The Concord Monitor reported that the intensity of the rainfall has affected forest health, as well as the logging industry.

“There’s an occasional site that’s really sandy or well-drained, but most logging sites will have a bottleneck somewhere,” Markus Bradley, a forester at Redstart Natural Resource Management in Corinth, said, according to the Concord Monitor.

Loggers explained that wet roads can block equipment, and logging can be brought to a halt by muddy forests. 

“The previous decade, honestly, especially the first part of the summer, has been getting very wet. On average, it’s been getting wetter in June and July and drying out later in the summer," Bradley said.