'Last night's storm was pretty exceptional,' National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist Austen Flannery told Newsweek.
Moisture-laden storms arrived in Florida earlier this week, and the torrential rain has already broken a city record after more than 10 inches of rain fell in Sarasota on Tuesday.A plume of moisture from the Caribbean is bringing excessive rain to the region. Meteorologists previously expected the heaviest rains to occur from Wednesday to Friday, but downpours have already brought a deluge to southwestern Florida, including in Fort Myers and Sarasota.
rains fell with significant flooding ongoing there and Bradenton,' Bergren posted on X, formerly Twitter, with the video.'Rain is over 10.3' just from Tuesday officially in Sarasota. In fact, 3.93' of rain fell from 7-8PM EDT Tuesday, which is the most ever observed in 1 hour in the history of Sarasota weather records . Also, statistically getting this much rain in such short time is about a 1 : 1,000 year flood for this part of FL.
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