Most Rain EVER!

Arizona got drenched yesterday.  The Governor declared a statewide emergency.  Large parts of major interstates were washed away and now the headlines are reporting it....the most rain EVER!

The National Weather Service recorded 3.29 inches of rain at the Phoenix airport, by far the most precipitation ever received in one day in the city. The previous record was 2.91 inches in 1939.

Other Phoenix metro areas received staggering amounts of rain for the desert. Chandler recorded 5.63 inches, while Mesa had 4.41 inches.

Phoenix sometimes receives heavy rain and wind during the summer months, the result of monsoon storms in the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. The past six years have produced a highly erratic pattern as the city has gone from huge rainfall one summer to scant precipitation the next, said meteorologist Charlotte Dewey.

For example, Phoenix received 5.7 inches of rain during the summer storm season in 2008, followed by less than an inch the next summer. The 2011 summer was marked by little rain and towering dust clouds that enveloped the city, while this season has produced record rain. Monday's single-day rainfall totals eclipsed the average total precipitation for the entire summer. 

Here;  http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2014/09/09/record-amount-rainfall-floods-phoenix-as-hurricane-norbert-remnants-soak/

So in just a few hours, parts of the state got more rain than they usually receive during the entire summer!

For now, we can file this headline under the "Earth Is Groaning" file....along with the 1000 other headlines with NEVER and EVER in them.