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Weather service confirms a new record 64 inches of rain fell during Harvey
Houston Chronicle ^ | 9-28-2017 | John D. Harden

Posted on 09/28/2017 8:08:13 AM PDT by Snickering Hound

The National Weather Service confirmed Wednesday that a record 64.58 inches of rain fell during Hurricane Harvey in Nederland near Beaumont during the storm’s five-day onslaught.

The city’s record rainfall is the heaviest rainfall ever logged in the U.S. during a tropical storm, breaking Hawaii's 1950 record of 52 inches. The record was captured near Jack Brooks Regional Airport.

Nederland is in Jefferson County — a county east of Houston where four people died, more than 74,000 homes were impacted and at least $73 million in damages to public property occurred.

Just a little more than a month since Harvey made landfall, weather officials now have a clearer picture of the storm’s massive force and how it impacted areas to the east. Meteorologists needed weeks to determine just which area in Houston got the most rain.

In the days after the storm, officials believed that 51.8 inches, logged by a gauge near Cedar Bayou just inside east Harris County, would be the new record. It would have broken the contiguous U.S. record for rainfall during a tropical storm.

Officials later discovered the reading was riddled with errors after realizing the storm flooded and broke the gauge.

Since then, weather officials confirmed at least seven sites with more than 51 inches.

The record would then go to Friendswood which recorded 56 inches before being snatched away by Nederland, followed by Groves with 63 inches.

Data is still being analyzed but Scott Overpeck, a NWS forecaster, said the record will probably stay in Nederland.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: hurricaneharvey; rainfall; rainfallrecord

1 posted on 09/28/2017 8:08:13 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

That’s a lot of water. Have seen a good number of 12” days in my 32 years on the MS Gulf Coast but that makes the rain I’ve seen pale in comparison - even after going through Katrina.


2 posted on 09/28/2017 8:14:47 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Snickering Hound

64 inches is my height. Dang.


3 posted on 09/28/2017 8:15:58 AM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Snickering Hound

That rainfall dwarfs in comparison to rainfall before Noah decided to build the Ark.

Even today, the town of Cherapunji gets 400-500 inches of rainfall every year. The town is at the foothills of the biggest mountain on earth, the Himalaya’s. The monsoons just bump into the mountain and unload the waterfall.


4 posted on 09/28/2017 8:21:33 AM PDT by entropy12 (Republicans flirt with liberal media who will never vote for them! So dumb.)
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To: Snickering Hound
🌧🙀No doubt brought on by mid summer ice melt in the arctic regions.
5 posted on 09/28/2017 8:31:06 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Snickering Hound
2009 Typhoon Morakot dumped 109.3 " of rain on the Philippines.

Most ever was 1980 Cyclone Hyacinthe which dropped 239.5 " at Commerson's Crater, on Réunion Island, (A French possession East of Madagascar.)

6 posted on 09/28/2017 8:33:53 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make US Intelligence great again!)
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To: Snickering Hound

Yep, That’s where I live... Houses flooded all around me, mine, the rising water came to less than inch from entering my house!!! Must live right...


7 posted on 09/28/2017 8:38:54 AM PDT by ThomasPaine2000 (Peace without freedom is tyranny.)
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To: Snickering Hound

I wonder what the rainfall was in the Triassic Era.


8 posted on 09/28/2017 8:38:56 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: ThomasPaine2000
Yep, That’s where I live..

A month later and I'm still not back in my house. The current was so strong the piers under my house have shifted and the latest estimate is $6000. just to re-level and repair that damage.

9 posted on 09/28/2017 8:50:03 AM PDT by Bearshouse
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To: Snickering Hound
Beaumont,TX before/after Irma.


10 posted on 09/28/2017 8:52:13 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Orthodox American!)
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To: Snickering Hound

Over the course of x number of days. (5 days to get to 50 inches.)
24 hour record is 42 inches.
And it still wasn’t anything magic or different, it was still just a hurricane doing hurricane things despite the claims of global warming true believers.


11 posted on 09/28/2017 9:00:57 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Rebelbase

Yup...worth 1000 words


12 posted on 09/28/2017 9:01:43 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Rebelbase

Words don’t cover it.


13 posted on 09/28/2017 11:36:06 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Snickering Hound
Five feet and change. Damn.

That's twice what we get around here. In an entire year.

14 posted on 09/28/2017 11:41:56 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Snickering Hound

Harvey produced 64 inches of rain but you are not hearing and crying like you did from the people of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. There have not been any news stories and pictures from Texas and no fat women sitting in lawn chairs after the hurricane saying nobody is helping me clean up. Why the difference?


15 posted on 09/28/2017 4:20:33 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent (.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Big deal. During The Flood it rained that way for 40 days and nights.


16 posted on 09/28/2017 7:29:47 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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