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Snowfall inside the city of Los Angeles is rare. The record snowfall occurred on January 19, 1949, when 3.0 inches (7.6 cm) of snow fell inside city limits, however Burbank reported 4.7 inches. Since official records were first kept in 1877, the downtown Los Angeles weather station observed measurable snowfall three times, in 1882, 1932, and 1949.
Douglasville received the most rain in 24 hours than any other city in metro Atlanta, the city received over 16.5 inches of rain on Sept 21, 2009. (The USGS calculated it to be a greater-than- 500-year flood ; the National Weather Service stated that chances of that much rain anywhere in the region are 1 in 10,000 years.)
The official NWS monitoring station at the Atlanta airport recorded 3.70 inches (94 mm) of rainfall from daybreak to 8pm (more than doubling the previous record for rainfall on that date), while outlying monitoring stations recorded 5 inches (130 mm) of rainfall in a 13-hour period. [3]
Here's how we compiled the list: We pored through 30-year average snowfall statistics of hundreds of locations in the U.S. from 1991 through 2020. We considered only those towns and cities with a ...
The latest back-to-back water years have become the wettest on record for Los Angeles since the late 1800s, with more than 52 inches falling since October 2022. And officials say more is on the way.
The western part of the contiguous United States west of the 98th meridian, the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, the Willamette Valley, and the Sierra Nevada range are the wetter portions of the nation, with average rainfall exceeding 30 inches (760 mm) per year. The drier areas are the Desert Southwest, Great Basin, valleys of northeast ...
This is an incredible feat, considering they average 14.26 inches of rain over the course of an entire year. This means that just two months into 2024, Los Angeles has already received 100% of its ...
Downtown Los Angeles had received 7.03 inches (179 mm) of rain in two days from February 4-5 making it the second wettest two-day span in the city's history. For reference, Downtown Los Angeles only averages 14.25 inches (362 mm) of rain in a normal rain year. [20] Heavy rainfall caused more than 300 landslides and severe flash flooding ...