The east coast has been hit very hard by extreme rainfalls from tropical storms. Binghamton, New York set their all time record one day rainfall on Wednesday of 7.49 inches. The featured chart shows the one minute interval rainfall data from the observation site there. A similar chart to this was generated for the other daily records set this year for Dubuque, Chicago, and New York City. There is a very big difference shown by this plot with peak hourly rates in the one to two inches per hour range as compared with double or triple that in the other plots.

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Good = 13
Bad = 6

Tags:   record   precip  

This summer has seen extremes for lack of rainfall over the southern plains and daily rainfall totals. The featured chart is of one minute interval data from New York City's JFK Airport showing a rainfall total of 7.8 inches on Sunday. While this was the largest daily rainfall total for the airport site, it is not clear if this was the largest total for New York City as the official site is at Central Park.

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Good = 13
Bad = 4

Tags:   rain   record  

Just a few days ago, the Chicago O'Hare weather sensor set a local record for daily rainfall total. This time it is Dubuque's turn. The featured chart displays the one minute interval precipitation data from the Dubuque Airport weather sensor. The hourly rainfall rates are presented looking over various windows of time. On a minute by minute basis, the extrapolated hourly rates exceeded 10 inches per hour (0.19 inches in one minute)! Needless to say, this amount of intense rainfall caused a lot of problems in the area. Other (non-official) weather sensors in the area reported upwards of 14 inches of rain from this event!

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Good = 42
Bad = 11

Tags:   rain   record  

Our atmosphere has been loaded with water recently. When storms form in this environment, they can become very efficient rain producers and dump extreme amounts of precipitation quickly. During just Saturday morning, the weather sensor at the Chicago O'Hare Airport recorded their largest daily rainfall total on record. The featured chart presents the one minute interval precipitation data from the weather sensor and shows computed rainfall rates measured over various intervals of time. The rates over 1 and 15 minute intervals are extrapolated out over the hour for comparison. The actual hourly rates are shown in red. For a minute by minute basis, rainfall rates once exceeded 8 inches per hour (0.14 inches reported in one minute)!

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Good = 23
Bad = 8

Tags:   rain   record  

The featured graph displays the daily observation of snow depth from the Des Moines Airport. For the past 57 days, the site has reported a snow depth greater than 5 inches. This sets a record for the longest consecutive period for Des Moines beating out a previous record stretch from 12 December 1961 TO 3 February 1962. The snow does not appear to be going anywhere, anytime soon with more winter storms in the forecast.

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Good = 25
Bad = 14

Tags:   record  

Des Moines impressive run of 53 straight days without measurable precipitation ended this weekend. Hopefully, we don't experience another streak of this length for many years.

Tags:   record