It may feel like a wet and rainy May, but rainfall totals for this month are a fraction of the rainfall North Texas received last year.

As of Thursday, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport had received about 1.35 inches of rain this month. For the same time period last May, National Weather Service records show 4.81 inches had fallen.

The area went on to receive a total of 8.34 inches in May 2007, putting it well above the normal May rainfall total of 5.15 inches.

So what does this all mean?

The meager rainfall totals this May won't send North Texas back into drought conditions, said Joe Harris, a weather service meteorologist.

"We really have to shut down hard – no rain for weeks on end and temps in the 90s to 100s – before people start worrying about crops," Mr. Harris said.

Rainfall totals for the year are still about an inch above normal at 13.8 inches. And weather experts were predicting near-normal rainfall amounts through June.

No rain was predicted for the next few days as the weather was expected to remain sunny with temperatures in the 70s today and in the 80s on Saturday, said Tara Dudzik, a weather service meteorologist.