Hurricane Harvey's Historical and Phenomenal Soaking

摘要

Cutting to the chase, Hurricane Harvey was a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane that made landfall along the Texas coastline on August 25,2017, and for the next five days, disgorged phenomenal amounts of rain across the northeastern coast of Texas-including the entire Houston metropolitan region. A preliminary map of rain totals is shown in Figure 1. Those amounts exceeded 40 inches in a small zone including Pasadena, Houston, Beaumont, and Port Arthur. According to the NWS, Cedar Bayou on the eastern side of Houston received nearly 52 inches-the most from a single tropical cyclone in the continental United States, topping a previous record of 48 inches in Medina, Texas, during Tropical Storm Amelia (1978).