Back when I was working in Disco Bay '76-80 we had a weather station. The winter of '76-77 was severe drought, which broke in March. For the next couple of years, through the summers, we had a minimum of an inch of rain every month.

In a subsequent life I was looking at Cedar River sockeye and their decline. WDF had identified that something happened around 1980. I looked at fall rainfall, September-December (to cover spawn time). The total rainfall for the four months was essentially the same. What changed in the September dried up and November got wetter. This likely damaged the September spawners and maybe even November; would need to look at flows.

We need to be looking at these flow/rain/snow issues over long periods of time rather than just "Damn, it's wet this year and was dry last".