What A Wet Saturday Afternoon

So yesterday was quite a show! Around 2:30 in the afternoon, some heavy rain moved into the greater Boston area and sat over us for about an hour. The atmosphere was VERY moist, almost 100% humidity. Combined with some very unstable air you get heavy downpours!

In Cambridge, where I was at work, 3.3 inches of rain fell in just under 90 min! Boston got 2.01 inches in the same time span. We hadn't had any rain here for the better part of two weeks so our ground soil was very dry and unable to absorb this amount of rain in such a short time. What you got was scenes like these.



Thank you to my friend Brian Blank for the pics. Crazy scene! I saw a little kid get swept off his feet by the strong current of water on Mass Ave. Some pretty serious flash flooding was reported all across the area. Once the rain stopped, the floods just disappeared. Makes you think though. If just 3 inches of rain could do this, what does 8 or 9 inches of rain look like!

By the way, our yearly total for precipitation is over 30 inches now! We still have 5 more months in the year as well.