Tag: hawaii rainfall
Last August, Category 4 Harvey hit Texas with tremendous force. While wind and storm surge impacts were massive, the rainfall was simply off the charts as the vast system stalled for 5 days. 60.58 INCHES of rain fell on Nederland, TX setting a new record for most rainfall within a single US tropical cyclone. That […]
A site on the Hawaiian island of Kauai may have set a new US 24-hour rainfall record. Hawaii is well known for heavy rainfall events but an astonishing 1-day rainfall event between April 14-15th may well have raised the bar of US extremes further. Preliminary data suggests Waipa on the island of Kauai recorded 49.69 […]
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