Photos: A Foot of Rain in Hong Kong
Record tropical rainfall doused Hong Kong [WikiPedia | CIA Factbook | Google Map] Saturday. A subscription site on Google News indicated that two people were killed by a landslide. More information is available from the Shanghai Daily website, which has an additional photo.
NASA's TRMM rainfall measurement graphic in Google Earth showed heavy rainfall over the entire area:
The Hong Kong government website gave the details:
*As amazing as this is, the first edition of "Extreme Weather" indicates that the world record for a 1-hour rainfall is 15.78" in China.
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