Pockets of Fort Lauderdale were drenched with 20 to 25.91 inches Wednesday, and the broader metro area was pummeled with 10 to 15 inches of rain.
Bill Kearney | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
He said that their preliminary data on Thursday indicated that there were pockets of Fort Lauderdale, stretching from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport up to Edgewood, Tarpon River, and south of the upper Middle River, that were drenched with 20 to 25.91 inches Wednesday, and the broader metro area was pummeled with 10 to 15 inches of rain.
Those 24-hour totals have a 1-in-500 chance of happening in any given year, and the six-hour totals have a 1-in-1,000 chance of happening in any given year. As for the mechanics of the storm, “It’s not like a tropical storm,” he said. “It’s a series of storms that develop within a favorable environment.”
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