Fasten it to a fence or other sturdy surface with a wire coat hanger then make an accompanying record book to keep track of daily rainfall.

In some locations, the daily rainfall represented over 10% of the annual precipitation total.

In a typical year there are several events where the daily rainfall exceeds 50 mm and the river flow exceeds 400 cubic metres per second.

In a 24-hour period, 3.82in mm of precipitation fell, breaking the daily rainfall record.

The highest daily rainfall total on the island was 8.78 in, causing minor local flooding.

Crops in the soil and outdoor containers need clear plastic or polythene overhead protection to keep off excessive rainfall as well as to raise the temperature a little.

Such flooding generally occurs as a result of excessive rainfall, excessive snowmelt, excessive runoff, levee failure or a combination of these sources.

Easterly (tropical) waves during this season occasionally bring excessive rainfall, while infrequent hurricanes may be accompanied by unusually heavy amounts.

Typhoons frequent the island, which can lead to excessive rainfall.

Throughout the state, excessive rainfall caused many rivers to overflow.

Soon.85 of an inch of rainfall followed.

The wettest year in recorded history was 1900, with 72.86 inches of rainfall.

Outer rainbands produced several inches of rainfall, leading to minor flooding while simultaneously alleviating drought conditions.

Transplanted ocotillo plants require irrigation to become established, but once established, they can survive on 8 inches of rainfall per year.

In the first hour alone, 8 inches of rainfall was recorded for a total of 12 inches during the first three hours.

The maps, available online, show properties at risk when intense rainfall overwhelms drainage systems.

That intense rainfall could have dissolved the ground underneath the house to produce a sinkhole.

Dozens of families were left homeless, the damage to their houses made worse by the intense rainfall.

He predicted that intense rainfall events would rise by 40 per cent by 2080, leading to a corresponding increase in river flows and flooding.

Apart from hurricanes, intense rainfall events in general have become more likely because of a warmer planet.

However, we are far from breaking any monthly rainfall or temperature records yet.

Some areas were drenched by more than half the average monthly rainfall in just two hours.

It used a supercomputer to simulate thousands of possible winters and found a 34 per cent risk of record monthly rainfall in a region in any given winter.

Monthly rainfall totals vary minimally throughout the year, although the precipitation levels tend to be higher during the summer than during the winter.

The highest monthly rainfall of 63.6 mm was recorded in 1980.

Strong winds and torrential rainfall disrupted transportation services.

As a result of torrential rainfall, at least 30 fatalities occurred, with dozens more missing, and leaving 25,000 homeless.

Fifteen railway lines were disrupted due to torrential rainfall.

Torrential rainfall triggered widespread flooding which inundated homes and floated cars left on streets.

Large quantities of tropical moisture fed the storm, allowing it to produce torrential rainfall.

By the end of the year the total rainfall was only 5 per cent below normal.

The total rainfall was 109mm (4.2ins).

But the autumn and winter that followed were among the wettest on record, and the year's total rainfall actually turned out to be average.

About 90% of total rainfall occurs in the rainy season.

Some estimates of the maximum total rainfall in some places were as high as 250 mm.