Philadelphia area flooding totals: City sets record for wettest day in March

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Philadelphia area flooding totals: City sets record for wettest day in March
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Philadelphia set a record for the wettest day ever in March. See how much rain we got!

Philadelphia set a record for the wettest day ever in March. The rain gauge at the airport recorded just over 3 inches. Part of New Castle County near Wilmington, Delaware also got just over 3 inches.Some spots in Gloucester County and Camden County, New Jersey got more than 4 inches of rain. For scale, that's a month's worth of rain, and it came in just half of a day.

The National Weather Service reported closed sections of roads in places that saw the most rain, like in areas of Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Salem Counites in New Jersey. Different sections of New Jersey state route 38 were closed. Parts of US 40 in New Jersey were also closed due to flooding.In Pennsylvania, sections of southern Chester County, Montgomery County, and Delaware County got over 2.5 inches of rain.

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