Sentences with phrase «inches of rain»

Other than the fact that we had the absolute gloomiest day of the year and 5 inches of rain the day I was taking pictures, our little Woodland Tree made even the darkest day a little warmer and brighter.

Yorba Linda receives 14 to 15 inches of rain per year on average.

«You don't think you're going to get 50 inches of rain.»

Floods Most floods occur in floodplains, but can occur in many areas when extreme weather patterns bring several inches of rain in a short amount of time.

As a semi-arid desert climate, there are four distinct seasons, more than three hundred days of sunshine, and a comfortable average of seven inches of rain per year.

San Diego County, which has a population of 3.2 million people, gets an average of 12 inches of rain a year.

In the last 24 hours, Houston and nearby Galveston have received 24 inches of rain, and it looks like it's not letting up any time soon.

Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas yesterday, and while the storm has been downgraded to a tropical storm, it's expected to drop up to 40 inches of rain in the area, which is leading to catastrophic flooding in the area.

According to CNN, the category four hurricane dumped almost 40 inches of rain on the impoverished nation, and it -LSB-...]

In 1998, 30 inches of rain in two days flooded the San Antonio River and caused more than $ 500 million in damage.

In 2002, 35 inches of rain fell over an 8 - day period and caused extensive flooding that damaged more than 48,000 homes around the San Antonio area.

In June 1969, 8 inches of rain fell in just 6 hours causing Trammel Creek to overflow.

While you decide, don't forget about the 1984 storm that hit Tulsa with 15 inches of rain in a single night, damaging some 7,000 buildings and causing approximately $ 180 million of damage.

Reports show there has been more than 8 inches of rain in Key West since Saturday, and forecasters are expecting this weather to continue through Wednesday.

On the other hand, the fact that Arizona averages less than 13 inches of rain per year, most of which comes during the short period of the annual monsoon, also opens homeowners in Arizona to a unique threat that they need to address through homeowner's insurance: wildfires.

More recently, in May 2010, a thunderstorm dropped 14 inches of rain on the city, flummoxing homeowners and making insurers nervous.

In April 2013, the Indianapolis metro area was hit by severe flooding; with 5.5 inches of rain fell, forcing hundreds of residents to leave their homes.

But this isn't necessarily true since there is at least.01 inches of rain within 150 days, which is more than almost all U.S. cities east of the Rocky Mountains.

Remember, the weather around here gets crazy: in 1952, 11 inches of rain sloshed the city, causing over $ 1 million of property damage!

Washington's rainfall was 6.27 inches, but 10 to 15 inches of rain fell to the west of DC.

Phoenix has an arid climate and some of the hottest seasonal temperatures in the U.S.. Its residents see an average of 325 sunny days and less than eight inches of rain each year.

(reporting almost fifty inches of rain fell on Houston and thousands needed rescue from their flooded homes).

[12] Hurricane Harvey dumped dozens of inches of rain on southern Texas causing devastating water levels to rise several feet.

During that one year only 7 inches of rain fell.

Using a blend of rain gauges and nearby radar data, they estimate that 15.55 inches of rain fell during the 24 - hour period.

«If you live in Portland, you might want to think twice before complaining about the 40 - plus inches of rain dumped on your head every year.

The south side of the city (where the airport is) is almost desert with about 14 inches of rain per year.

A powerful storm system, which the National Weather Service called a «nearly 1 in a thousand year event» [1] brought as much as 8 to 10 inches of rain in six to eight hours in parts of West Virginia, killing at least 23 people.

The rain gauge in Hanalei (the small town that received the most rain) broke at 28 inches, but the National Weather Service concluded that nearly 50 inches of rain fell in 24 hours.

This week the National Weather Service said nearly 50 inches of rain fell in 24 hours.

On a summer afternoon a «shower» can dump three inches of rain per hour.

The latest precipitation forecast from NOAA's Hydrological prediction center shows that Irene could dump over eight inches of rain over coastal New England.»

Up to ten inches of rain could fall this week, but this is no regular March Miracle.

Parts of Southeast Texas have now seen 50 inches of rain since Friday — and the rain is still falling.

NOAA's precipitation forecast for the next five days puts over five inches of rain on a very large stretch of real estate from the Mid-Atlantic up to northern Maine:

In Seattle, 1.71 inches of rain fell,... Read More

These areas may experience tropical storm conditions with wind gusts to 30 - 60 mph, 1 - 3 inches of rain, and beach erosion.

A rain gauge in Mont Belvieu, about 40 miles east of Houston, had registered 51.88 inches of rain through late Tuesday afternoon.

[24] Bush Continental Airport broke its record for wettest calendar day by over five inches, receiving 16.07 inches of rain on August 27th, and Hobby Airport set a new two - day rainfall record with 23.06 inches August 26th - 27th, surpassing its previous record by nearly eight inches.

Most recently in Louisiana, more than 30 inches of rain fell in three days, stranding 20,000 people and killing nine.

In July, thunderstorms dumped more than six inches of rain on Elicott City, Maryland in roughly two hours, causing flash floods that upended cars and lives.

The 25 water pumps now installed in Miami Beach (55 more to go) have enough capacity to manage a storm that brings 7.5 inches of rain within 24 hours, but they would be overwhelmed by anything more.

The late - August storm dumped up to 60 inches of rain on southeast Texas, but the resulting damage was multiplied by actions taken --- and not taken — during the past 50 years.

When Hurricane Harvey reached Houston in August, it dumped 51 inches of rain, flooding an estimated 150,000 structures across the region, and killing more than 80.

Officials predict 50 more inches of rain could be dumped on the area this week.

We've finally got under nearly 5 inches of rain.

Harvey made landfall in Texas on August 25, dumping more than 50 inches of rain in less than a week — roughly the amount of precipitation Houston gets in an entire year.

And even earlier, in 1909 before hurricanes were named, a storm dropped more than 96 inches of rain on Jamaica.

In August, Hurricane Harvey dumped more than 50 inches of rain on Houston, pushing Addicks and Barker to the brink.

In more recent history, Wilma dumped more than 62 inches of rain on Mexico in 2005 and Hurricane Mitch, blamed for killing more than 11,000 in Central America in 1998, soaked Nicaragua with more than 62 inches, according to records compiled by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecaster David Roth.»