IEM Daily Feature
Monday, 15 August 2016

20 inches in Two Days

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 05:38 AM

The big weather story in the US is the historic flooding ongoing in Louisiana. The rainfall reports over this past weekend are mind blowing. The featured chart presents one minute precipitation from the Lafayette, LA ASOS site. Almost 21 inches of rain is shown over just a two day period! The blue, tan, and red lines present some metrics on how fast the rain was falling over this period. Just a whole lot of rain falling over an extended period of time!

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