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These communities found themselves at the epicenter of an unusual weather pattern that dumped record rainfall on northwestern Pakistan and sent floodwaters surging from the north to the rest of the nation.

Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm at first landfall on August 25, stalled over Texas as a tropical storm, causing record rainfall between August 26 and 28.

The researchers analyzed rainfall data recorded throughout Africa from 1920 to 2013 and found that the Sahara, which occupies much of the northern part of the continent, expanded by 10 percent during this period when looking at annual trends.

In California, «Records are limited, but from what we have for the last 50 years, rainfall has become more variable,» says Todd Dawson, a professor of integrative biology at the University of California at Berkeley.

This was the lowest monthly rainfall for any month at this location since records began here in 1957.

The accumulated rainfall of December 2013 and January and February 2014 has been the largest ever recorded at the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford.

The researchers began their new work by reconstructing the rainfall record in Kolkata, India, an area at the edge of the core monsoon zone, during the 2009 Indian summer monsoon (ISM).

At the UA, Tierney and Paul Zander teased out temperature and rainfall records from the organic matter preserved in the sediment layers.

And look at the record storms, rainfall, droughts, and fires we've already got.

The highest monthly rainfall ever registered in Gran Canaria in January is 124.9 mm, which was recorded at Gran Canaria Airport across January 1957.

The highest monthly rainfall ever recorded in Gran Canaria in February is 182.9 mm, which was registered at Gran Canaria Airport across February 1954.

Here in Latin America, the Amazon rain forest seems to be drying at an alarming rate, Sao Paulo is beset by drought, and Buenos Aires could soon see a record amount of rainfall this year, according to Argentinian author and journalist Martin De Ambrosio.

«1 drowning confirmed in flooding after record rainfall in Oklahoma... Jun 15, 2010 — Record - busting rainfall and ensuing flooding in Oklahoma led to at least one death,&record rainfall in Oklahoma... Jun 15, 2010 — Record - busting rainfall and ensuing flooding in Oklahoma led to at least one death,&Record - busting rainfall and ensuing flooding in Oklahoma led to at least one death,»

Research indicates that the Arctic had substantially less sea ice during this period compared to present Current desert regions of Central Asia were extensively forested due to higher rainfall, and the warm temperate forest belts in China and Japan were extended northwards West African sediments additionally record the «African Humid Period», an interval between 16,000 and 6,000 years ago when Africa was much wetter due to a strengthening of the African monsoon While there do not appear to have been significant temperature changes at most low latitude sites, other climate changes have been reported.

In equatorial regions the same evidence of high solar radiation and high rainfall at the end of the Pleistocene and during the early Holocene is apparent in the record of the Nile sediments.

• Harvey lasted 117 hours as a named storm after Texas landfall, shattering the old record for named storm longevity after Texas hurricane landfall set by Fern (1971) at 54 hours • Harvey broke the tropical cyclone - generated United States rainfall record.

In June 2008, a record flood event exceeded the once - in -500-year flood level by more than 5 feet, causing $ 5 to $ 6 billion in damages from flooding, or more than $ 40,000 per resident of the city of Cedar Rapids.85 The flood inundated much of the downtown, damaging more than 4,000 structures, including 80 % of government offices, and displacing 25,000 people.86 The record flood at Cedar Rapids was the result of low reservoir capacity and extreme rainfall on soil already saturated from unusually wet conditions.

A new study using a high - resolution stalagmite record from Australia with cave sites in southern China reveal a close coupling of monsoon rainfall on both continents, with numerous synchronous pluvial and drought periods, suggesting that the tropical rain belt expanded and contracted numerous times at multidecadal to centennial scales.

From historic droughts around the world and in places like California, Syria, Brazil and Iran to inexorably increasing glacial melt; from an expanding blight of fish killing and water poisoning algae blooms in lakes, rivers and oceans to a growing rash of global record rainfall events; and from record Arctic sea ice volume losses approaching 80 percent at the end of the summer of 2012 to a rapidly thawing permafrost zone explosively emitting an ever - increasing amount of methane and CO2, it's already a disastrous train - wreck.

Even with the record rainfall in the Murray Darling during 2010, flow at Lock 1 never reached the heights it did during the early 1990 and was a long way short of the peaks during the early 1970s.

The MDB average rainfall during the last three decades has been recording a 10 % loss per decade, I believe this is primarily due to declining solar radiation levels, moving from the highest for 8000 years to presently the lowest for 100 years, this solar decline is expected to continue for at least another 3 decades, maybe 6 decades like it did in the 16th century, brining on the last little ice age.

The extreme rainfall led to record flooding at 19 different National Weather Service river forecast locations where the period extends to at least before 2000, and multiple feet of water accumulated on interstates.

Michael says: November 8, 2010 at 12:29 pm Consistent with all the above we are experiencing cold and record rainfall in many parts of the world... What a coincidence!!!

The researchers began their new work by reconstructing the rainfall record in Kolkata, India, an area at the edge of the core monsoon zone, during the 2009 Indian summer monsoon (ISM).

«Rainfall Records Highest annual total: 3964.9 mm at Ballaghbeama Gap in 1960.

Once - in - a-thousand year rainfall in West Virginia drove record - breaking flooding in which at least 23 lives were lost.

I don't entirely agree with Ray Ladbury's comment at least for rare rainfall events; there are quite long records for some locations and from the satellite era worldwide data.

The rock record reveals that such rainfall changes occur at the same time as general alterations in the relative strength of sunlight hitting the planet thanks to periodic shifts in Earth's orbit, known as Milankovitch cycles.

For example, at several Australian weather stations studied in detail with statistics, recorder local rainfall correlates with recorded temperatures quite significantly.

Some 26 daily rainfall records were broken at weather stations across Australia over the 2012 - 13 summer.