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  2. That’s a storm that NOAA says has a one-in-500 chance of happening in a given year. Floyd dropped 18.30 inches of rain on Southport in 1999, while Florence’s 31.26 inches of rain over four ...

  3. United States rainfall climatology - Wikipedia

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    Average precipitation across the region show maxima along the coastal plain and along the mountains of the Appalachians. Between 28 inches (710 mm) and 62 inches (1,600 mm) of precipitation falls annually across the area. [60] Seasonally, there are slight changes to precipitation distribution through the year.

  4. 100-year flood - Wikipedia

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    Ten-year floods have a 10% chance of occurring in any given year (P e =0.10); 500-year have a 0.2% chance of occurring in any given year (P e =0.002); etc. The percent chance of an X-year flood occurring in a single year is 100/X. A similar analysis is commonly applied to coastal flooding or rainfall data.

  5. List of weather records - Wikipedia

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    Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian writing for Weather Underground, believes that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 or 2.8 °C (4 or 5 °F) too high. [13] Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth could still be at Death Valley, but is instead 54.0 °C (129.2 °F) recorded on 30 ...

  6. Southern Florida receives record rainfall and flash flooding ...

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    So rare was Tuesday's rain between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. in Sarasota that it should only be expected every 500 to 1,000 years. The Tampa Bay area can normally expect 7.3 inches in the entire month of ...

  7. On one night, two places in the Northeast are hit with 1-in ...

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    In two locations on the same night, the storm that hit the Northeast this weekend dumped rain at or near rates that should only be expected once in 1,000 years. On one night, two places in the ...

  8. Floods in the United States (2000–present) - Wikipedia

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    According to the National Weather Service, in the second half of the month of May 2011, almost a year's worth of rain fell over the upper Missouri River basin. Extremely heavy rainfall in conjunction with an estimated 212 percent of normal snowpack in the Rocky Mountains contributed to this flooding event. [15]

  9. The unnamed storm dropped more than 20 inches of rain on Carolina Beach and 19 inches on Southport, flooding homes and damaging roads. Why were Monday’s ‘firehose’ rains in Southeastern NC ...

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