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Friday, September 01, 2017

Beaumont/Port Arthur Really Got It Too

Wow!:
On Tuesday alone, Beaumont-Port Arthur registered 26.03 inches of rain — including a foot of rain which poured down in just six hours. The 26-plus inches doubled its record for previous wettest day (12.76 inches from May 19, 1923) and even exceeded the most rain in any previous month on record.

Rainfall totals since Friday in the Beaumont-Port Arthur area ballooned to 47.7 inches pushing its annual rainfall to nearly 87 inches – a new record, with one-third of the year still to go.

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