As meteorologists continue to look to the past to determine possible future weather patterns, the following dates will remain notable until the next wettest day.

“This trend is projected to occur even in regions where total precipitation is expected to decrease, such as the Southwest.” The year 2018 made records for rainfall across eastern and southern U.S., and during Hurricane Florence, nearly one quarter of Wilmington, N.C.'s 102.40-inch rainfall took place in just four days. suggest that the recent trend towards increased heavy precipitation events will continue,” reports NASA. “Projections of future climate over the U.S. At the same time, severe droughts and floods have become an increasing problem, with their incidence varying across the country. In describing precipitation measurement missions and climate change, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) detailed that since 1900, the average U.S. Climate change-related rainfall has become a concern, with many experts predicting dangerous water cycles, rising sea levels, and other irregular weather patterns to come. While some of the specific rain days were caused by hurricanes and tropical storms, others were simply soaking wet days.

Stacker turned to the State Climate Extremes Committee (SCEC) of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to track these days in each state except for Kansas, as it had no data available.Īlong with the number of inches in 24 hours, some NOAA data detailed the devastating damage and lives lost during some of the rainiest days. Then come the absolute rainiest days in history, where record levels of precipitation fall in 24 hours. There are several types of rainy days, ranging from wet afternoons to soggy days to torrential downpours.

Texas precipitation totals