The area drenched by more than 20 inches of rainfall covered more than three times more area in Texas and Louisiana during Harvey than in the Carolinas during Florence, according to an analysis by Dr. Shane Hubbard, a researcher from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin. “They were two quite different storms and really not even comparable in terms of the amount of water that fell, ” Hubbard said in an email to weather.com.
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