All told, with the 51.88 inches of rain that was recorded in Cedar Bayou, Texas, Harvey brought the highest rainfall total to the continental U.S. from a single storm.

Wehner said he guessed, when he started his research, that Harvey might have dropped about 6 to 8 percent more rain than an identical storm would have dropped in 1950.

Central Texas faced historic, catastrophic flooding this month, with some meteorologists calling these floods 1000-year ...

We estimate the area covered by at least 20 inches of rain from Imelda to be about 2,200 square miles. According to an analysis by Shane Hubbard from the University of Wisconsin, Harvey's 20-inch ...

From Houston to the Hill Country, we Texans keep doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.

A Texas state flag flies in a yard filled with debris on July 6, 2025, in Hunt, Texas. Heavy rainfall caused flooding along the Guadalupe River in central Texas. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images) ...

Jennifer Jones pays respects to the Katrina Memorial in the Lower 9th Ward as rain from Tropical Storm Harvey moves through the area in New Orleans, La. Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, the 12th ...

Two people were reported dead, and several others injured on Saturday. Rainfall could reach 40 inches and "cause life-threatening flooding," said Mike Brennan of the National Hurricane Center.