I arrived at my office in a lull in the storm, and so got in without getting too wet. It helps that I'm in a suburban office park with a parking lot.
The Data Section chief asked me to change our precip display to mimic North Carolina's, which shows cumulative rainfall for various intervals up to 7 days. (Each State has some controls over what shows up in the national Web system.) It was pretty amazing this morning, with lots of sites showing 5-6 inches in 24 hours. As the rain has slacked off, you have to look at the 7-day totals now--but that's still a heck of a lot of rain per day, and we know it mostly came in the last 36 hours.
Re: understatement
The Data Section chief asked me to change our precip display to mimic North Carolina's, which shows cumulative rainfall for various intervals up to 7 days. (Each State has some controls over what shows up in the national Web system.) It was pretty amazing this morning, with lots of sites showing 5-6 inches in 24 hours. As the rain has slacked off, you have to look at the 7-day totals now--but that's still a heck of a lot of rain per day, and we know it mostly came in the last 36 hours.