Heaviest recorded rainfall
Posted in Anniversary, Nature on Monday, 15 November 2010
26 November marks the anniversary of the heaviest recorded rainfall in history. In 1970, Basse-Terre, the capital city of Guadeloupe and located on Basse-Terre Island in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, recorded 38.1 mm (one-and-a-half inches) of rain in a single minute. In the tropical climate of Basse-Terre the average temperature is 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) and the annual rainfall is 178 cm on average, varying between 6 mm in February and 23 mm in September.
More pictures featuring rain can be found here. Many more illustrations relating to the weather in all its forms can be found at the Look and Learn picture library.