What was the most rainy day on a place on Earth?
In an average year, New York City receives approximately 1.07 m of rain, about 0.83 m in Chicago, while in Los Angeles it is less than 0.30 m per year. Could you believe that there is a place on Earth that receives more rain in a single day than the three previous cities receive in a year?
Reunion is an island of 2,212 km² in the Indian Ocean, 640 km east of Madagascar. This densely populated island, administered by France, is very mountainous, with peaks over 3,000 metres high.
In March 1952, it rained on Reunion Island like it has never rained anywhere else in the world in modern times. In just 24 hours, a place in Reunion at 4,000 meters above sea level received an astonishing total of 1.84 m of rain!
That's more than the rain many places in the world receive in a year, and more than the rain you receive in some places in a decade. The weight of rainwater that fell that day in Reunion was about 8,320 tons per acre!
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