NOAA: Helene dumped 40 trillion gallons of rain

The Associated Press reports:

More than 40 trillion gallons of rain has drenched the southeastern United States this past week as a result of Hurricane Helene and a mundane rainstorm that sloshed before it — an unprecedented amount of water that has baffled experts.

That’s enough to fill the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium 51,000 times, or Lake Tahoe just once. If it were concentrated only on the state of North Carolina, that much water would be 3.5 feet deep (more than 1 meter). It’s enough to fill more than 60 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.

“That’s an astronomical amount of precipitation,” said Ed Clark, head of NOAA’s National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. “I have never seen anything so geographically vast and the sheer amount of water that fell from the sky in my 25 years with the weather service.”

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Meteorologists calculate that more than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the southeastern United States last week as a result of Hurricane Helene and a normal rainstorm that preceded it. https://t.co/unWItSSwEL

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