{"id":24980,"date":"2017-08-29T09:33:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T14:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24980"},"modified":"2017-08-29T09:33:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T14:33:17","slug":"harvey-is-already-the-worst-rainstorm-in-u-s-history-and-its-still-raining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24980","title":{"rendered":"Harvey is already the worst rainstorm in U.S. history, and it\u2019s still raining"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reuters \/ Richard Carson<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Harvey is already the worst rainstorm in U.S. history, and it\u2019s still raining<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The pictures are heartbreaking, the statistics are mind-boggling. And, incredibly, it\u2019s still getting worse.<\/p>\n

Since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas late Friday night, more than 40 inches of rain<\/a> have fallen in parts of the Houston metro area, producing the worst flood in the city\u2019s modern history. The latest forecasts<\/a> show another 15-25 inches on the way before Harvey clears out of the area on Wednesday. Harvey is sure to rank as the worst rainstorm in U.S. history, according to an initial analysis<\/a> from the Texas state climatologist.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course I\u2019m surprised,\u201d Houston meteorologist Tim Heller told Grist. \u201cWe tell people to prepare for the worst, but this is worse than the worst! This isn\u2019t isolated flooding, this isn\u2019t neighborhood flooding, this is area flooding, regional flooding. The warnings were there for 15-25 [inches] of rain, then 30, then 40. I quit giving out storm totals because I\u2019m not sure what we\u2019ll end up with now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The amount of rain so far brings new meaning to the word \u201cunprecedented.\u201d In just three days, Houston doubled the previous record rainfall for a full month \u2014 19.21 inches set in June 2001 during Tropical Storm Allison (which caused the city\u2019s previously worst flood).<\/p>\n

So much rain has fallen that the National Weather Service had to add additional colors<\/a> to its maps, in order to show rainfall totals this huge. During the peak of the rainfall on Saturday night, the local NWS office in Houston ad-libbed a dire warning<\/a> and issued a \u201cFlash Flood Emergency for Life-Threatening Catastrophic Flooding\u201d \u2014 the first time the already-dire \u201cFlash Flood Emergency\u201d was considered insufficient to describe the impending risk.<\/p>\n

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