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The Heaviest 24-Hour Rainfall Records For All 50 States
weather ^ | 07/17/2024 | Chris Dolce

Posted on 07/18/2024 8:34:32 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

S​ummer has a reputation for prolific rainfall totals in a short amount of time, and because of that, it's when many states have recorded their most extreme 24-hour rainfall records.

Records for 24-hour rainfall in the United States range from less than 6 inches to more than 4 feet. Those amounts for each state are shown in the map below, which uses data compiled by NOAA's Centers for Environmental Information. The record for Kansas is under review by the State Climate Extremes Committee since the previously posted biggest total of 13.53 inches was found to be

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KEYWORDS: heaviest; rainfall; records; states
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State climate extremes committee? They must come up with all the weather fear porn.
1 posted on 07/18/2024 8:34:32 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
We have droughts, we have rain. Maybe this is good for the CA wildfires.
2 posted on 07/18/2024 8:36:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27; Red Badger; bitt; radu; Tilted Irish Kilt; fieldmarshaldj; ...

Check out the more than 100 weather modification patents and then check out DARPA/HAARP. You will, no doubt, find answers to the weird weather now that the Deep State traitors including alphabet agencies are cornered. They’ve been manipulating our weather for how long?

Any answers yet on what really went down in Lahaina? Nope.


3 posted on 07/18/2024 8:38:22 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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4 posted on 07/18/2024 8:39:40 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“More than 10 states have set new records this century.”

A reasonable person has to ask how accurate were the records prior to this century?


5 posted on 07/18/2024 8:39:57 AM PDT by Wuli ( r)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think it was around 1994 or 1995 out west in Jupiter Farms. Working at a Dye golf course and we got 28” in 24 hours in the rain gauge. The flagsticks (on elevated target greens) on the practice range were nearly under water.


6 posted on 07/18/2024 8:42:40 AM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: Wuli
A reasonable person has to ask how accurate were the records prior to this century?

Oh yeah? well, my grand-great uncle worked at the Orem, Utah NOAA office in 1835. He was lonely, because Utah wasn't a state yet, no telegraph, and the Mormons didn't like him.
7 posted on 07/18/2024 8:47:17 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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“Oh yeah? well, my grand-great uncle worked at the Orem, Utah NOAA office in 1835. He was lonely, because Utah wasn’t a state yet, no telegraph, and the Mormons didn’t like him.”

And that has just what to do with the accuracy of measuring rain fall back then???


8 posted on 07/18/2024 8:49:18 AM PDT by Wuli ( r)
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To: texas booster

I was in that 22” rainfall in New Orleans. It had to be like 1995 or around that. IT was incredible. NO is set for large rains with their drainage system, but it couldn’t handle it.


9 posted on 07/18/2024 8:50:11 AM PDT by Eli Kopter
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I had just started my job in Liberty County, Tx on July 16, 1979 when Claudette struck the upper Texas coast.

Liberty County is about 55 miles from Alvin.

I know we got at least 2 ft of rain. I remember that the Trinity River was about 6 miles wide.


10 posted on 07/18/2024 8:50:34 AM PDT by texanyankee
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To: Wuli

NOAA is the weather office. By the way, the story was made up to show how ridiculous the claim is. No one was measuring rain in Orem Utah, or Bozeman, Montana, etc.


11 posted on 07/18/2024 8:51:29 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: 1Old Pro

Last July & August NH came within a 1/2” of setting new records for the amount of rain ever measured in those months.
I sucked. I had to mow my lawn every three to four days just to keep up.

This July is more normal. It has rained twice in the last three weeks. We had to start watering young fruit trees and bushes to keep them alive. Yesterday and the day before we had thunderstorms. On Tuesday night we got a severe thunderstorm. There was a micro burst in the town next door that took down a lot of trees. They thought it might have been a tornado at first. The sky was orange. It rained a .6” in about 15 minutes. Torrential rain.


12 posted on 07/18/2024 8:53:16 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Dr. Sivana

When I am making a sarcastic remark I usually do not leave it to the reader to guess I am trying to use sarcasm. I usually try to end the comment with /sarc.


13 posted on 07/18/2024 8:55:11 AM PDT by Wuli ( r)
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To: Wuli

10 billion year old planet with 100 years worth of data…..


14 posted on 07/18/2024 8:55:53 AM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: 1Old Pro

In 2005 I visited Minnesota. I was driving back from a lake 180 miles north of Minneapolis, Minnesota when it started to rain. I had a great view of the lightning lighting up the sky the whole way : )

By the time I got to the hotel it had rained 12” locally and the nearby creek was flooding. The next day it was back to normal levels.

In Woodland Hills, Calif they had something like 20” in 1 day.


15 posted on 07/18/2024 8:57:43 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Wuli
When I am making a sarcastic remark I usually do not leave it to the reader to guess I am trying to use sarcasm. I usually try to end the comment with /sarc.

I am of the mind that if it is over the top enough, that it would be unnecessary and ruin the joke. The Marx Brothers never admitted they were just joking.
16 posted on 07/18/2024 8:58:13 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Dr. Sivana

“I am of the mind that if it is over the top enough, that it would be unnecessary and ruin the joke. The Marx Brothers never admitted they were just joking.”

Audible and “live” joking is easier to recognize clearly than is sarcasm in serious looking black and white print. Black and white print is worse than a “straight face”, it has zero “face” and zero definite evidence of any nuance.


17 posted on 07/18/2024 9:07:38 AM PDT by Wuli ( r)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Great...rain makes the crops grow. The soils here in Illinois are near perfect and the corn is SHOOTING out of the ground well above my head (6’) in some locations.


18 posted on 07/18/2024 9:29:52 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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I remember the Kauai Flood.
Washed out multiple sections of the north shore road past Hanalei, and washed away weke road by Black Pot beach.
It was crazy, luckily my family was in the high ground in Princeville.


19 posted on 07/18/2024 9:31:28 AM PDT by TexasM1A (GLASS HAMAS)
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Alvin, Texas just outside of Houston, 42(43?) inches in 24 hours.

“The town was officially incorporated in 1893, making it the oldest incorporated settlement in Brazoria County. On July 25, 1979 Tropical Storm Claudette stalled over Alvin and inundated the region with 45 inches in 42 hours. That total included 43 inches in 24 hours, the maximum 24-hour rainfall in US history.”


20 posted on 07/18/2024 9:36:57 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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