Although the state is no stranger to heavy rains, rainfall as severe as this only occurs once every 500 to 1,000 years, making it extremely rare.
Images captured by NASA have mapped record-breaking rainfall in Florida.Over the past month, a moisture plume from the western Caribbean brought heavy rains to Florida's Gulf Coast, resulting in significant flooding and new precipitation records, the NASA Earth Observatory reported. A slow-moving storm system led to flash flood warnings and road closures across the region.The map shared by NASA Earth Observatory shows the accumulation of rainfall for the 24 hours when the rain was falling.
The deluge was intense enough to affect aviation operations significantly, according to NWS measurements.Meteorologists said such an extreme event statistically occurs only once every 500 to 1,000 years. The rainfall data, sourced from the Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrievals for GPM under the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, indicates that these figures might differ from ground-based measurements.
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