The storm will continue to drop high amounts of rain along the mid-Atlantic states and beyond, with a foot of rain in spots along the Delmarva, and up to six inches of rain in northeastern North Carolina, with some areas potentially reaching eight inches.
The National Disaster Operations Centre has warned that the expected rains will be above normal-125% more than Kenya gets during normal season, and such high amounts of rain will result in flash floods, and high moisture levels promoting breeding of disease-causing organisms.
MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said Ravensworth in North Yorkshire had seen the highest amount of rain, with 123mm recorded since the start of the heavy downpours on Sunday night.
Several locations in Texas measured at least 0.5 inches of rain, and the highest amount of rainfall was 1.5 inches in Lubbock.
The highest amount of rainfall was 99.7 mm observed in the year 2007 and on rain-days the average amount of rainfall was 8.2 mm.
In this case, 70 inches (177.8 cm) of rain, which occurred in February of 2006, is an outlier because the rest of the data is far below this norm, with the next highest amount of rainfall being 40 inches (101.6 cm).
This is caused by (1) the orientation of the test specimens towards directions that are exposed to high amounts of driving rain and (2) the use of relatively small test specimens.
Small test specimens obtain higher amounts of driving rain than large surfaces.
