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34 inches of rain in 24 hours breaks continental record
By Mary Gilbert, AccuWeather meteorologist
Published hours ago
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Parts of northern Italy are recovering from a historic deluge earlier this week that produced a new continent-wide record for rainfall over a 12-hour period and left one city with nearly a year’s worth of rainfall in one day.
Rossiglione, Italy, located in the Genoa province, found itself in the absolute worst of Monday’s extreme rainfall. The city ended up with a mind-boggling 34.8 inches (883.8 mm) of rainfall over the course of 24 hours.
The annual rainfall total for the nearby city of Genoa itself tops out at just over 42 inches, which is fairly representative for the region at large, according to AccuWeather forecasters. This means that Rossiglione recorded 82.9 percent of the average rainfall that falls over the course of an entire year in the region in just 24 hours.