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Hurricane Fay aftermath

I had heard that Hurricane Fay was dropping a lot of rain on Florida but I didn't realize that it was this much. From Weather Nerd: The great flood of Fay
Fay has continued to absolutely soak the area with ridiculous amounts of rain. The 7-day rainfall map from the Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service shows the extent of the deluge:

Some numbers:

MELBOURNE BEACH 3.9 SSE              25.28
COCOA BEACH                          24.38
CAPE CANAVERAL                       22.83
DELTONA                              22.69
SATELLITE BEACH                      22.40
PALM SHORES 1.4 W                    21.44
DELTONA 2.9 SE                       20.94
MELBOURNE 7.0 NW                     20.57
ORANGE CITY                          19.81
HILLIARD 5.4 NW                      19.70
TALLAHASSEE 5.7 SE                   19.17

Yikes -- sometimes when we get a pineapple express we can get six inches in a day but it is only for one day and the ground has time to recover. Imagine it raining like that for seven days continuously -- "Biblical" comes to mind... Posted by DaveH at August 24, 2008 4:04 PM