Not exact matches
He also warned of an increase in
record - breaking, intense rainfall, such as the Houston downpour in April that
dropped four months worth of
rain in less than 24 hours.
As the wettest storm on
record in US history bore down in the last days of August —
dropping five feet of
rain in some areas — completely inundating Houston, killing more than 70 people, and damaging almost 200,000 homes, at least five prisons on the east coast of Texas were evacuated.
It has been an unusual summer... first the cold wet start of it and then the heat and then storms... seems I had to run around and unplug everything every week or so... just disruptive to our regular routine... but we got the hay up without a
drop of
rain on it... so our
record is now 5 years in a row of putting up good hay.
The foreign ministry's statement closed with an offer to help respond to Hurricane Harvey, which hit the Texas coast Friday as a Category 4 storm and has
dropped record amounts of
rain on the Houston area.
He also warned of an increase in
record - breaking, intense rainfall, such as the Houston downpour in April that
dropped four months worth of
rain in less than 24 hours.
we have not have a
drop of
rain since then, this september was the driest on
record!.
The high SSTs provide ample moisture to the atmosphere and the resulting evaporative cooling of the ocean
dropped the subsequent SST values down, but meanwhile heavy
rains, often
record breaking in intensity, occurred nearby to where the winds carried the moisture.