These events included
historic droughts in East Africa, the southern United States and northern Mexico; an above - average tropical cyclone season in the North Atlantic
hurricane basin and a below - average season in the eastern North Pacific; and the wettest two - year period (2010 — 2011) on
record in Australia.
The unusually slow - moving, Category 4
hurricane was the wettest ever recorded: «all - time continental US tropical cyclone rain records were broken» between August 25 and 30, according to The Weather Channel (see «Historic Hurricane Harvey's Recap,»
hurricane was the wettest ever
recorded: «all - time continental US tropical cyclone rain
records were broken» between August 25 and 30, according to The Weather Channel (see «
Historic Hurricane Harvey's Recap,»
Hurricane Harvey's Recap,» Sept. 2).