UPDATE: Recent Rainfall Breaks Records Across the Area
By: Big 2 News Staff
Updated: October 1, 2012
The Permian Basin saw record breaking rainfall over the last four days!
From Thursday evening through Sunday, Midland saw 5.42 inches of rain.
Friday was by far the rainiest day of the four in the Tall City. Midland saw more than 4.5 inches of rain that day, putting it in the record books as the third highest rainfall amount in a single day.
Over those same four days, Odessa saw 5.30 inches of rain. That beat the city's entire rainfall of last year, which totaled just 4.60 inches.
The rain continues to help recharge our surface water sources.
According to the National Weather Service, water continues to pour into Lake O.H. Ivie and E.V. Spence Reservoir.
From Thursday evening through Sunday, Midland saw 5.42 inches of rain.
Friday was by far the rainiest day of the four in the Tall City. Midland saw more than 4.5 inches of rain that day, putting it in the record books as the third highest rainfall amount in a single day.
Over those same four days, Odessa saw 5.30 inches of rain. That beat the city's entire rainfall of last year, which totaled just 4.60 inches.
The rain continues to help recharge our surface water sources.
According to the National Weather Service, water continues to pour into Lake O.H. Ivie and E.V. Spence Reservoir.
