Record rainfall

[Bmyers]

Woke up this morning to storms and we ended up with a record amount of rainfall for a 24 hour period and that occurred in the first 8 hours of the day. It was still raining when they said the record had been broken.

Weather Alert: Record rainfall hit St. Louis this morning with the most rain in 24-hours on record at over 9″. The previous record for 24-hour rainfall of 7.02″ August 19th-20th 1915. Generally 6″-12″ of rain has fallen with the highest in a swath from St. Charles County through St. Louis into the Metro East.

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[Bmyers]

As of this morning before the rain started again, we had received 7.99 inches in our neighborhood and just over 4 inches at the farm.

[David]

Did you get a break today?

[Bmyers]

We ended up getting another half inch. St. Louis got hit a second time and had two inches in an hour leading to more flooding.

Everything has really greened up and now we are back under a heat advisory.