Hurricane "Harvey" led to the Texas state precipitation record

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (Xinhuanet) - The hurricane "Harvey" brought about 1250 millimeters of rainfall to a place in southern Texas in the past few days, setting a single tropical cyclone on the 29th of the US National Weather Service. The United States in addition to Hawaii and Alaska 48 states caused by the largest precipitation record. The previous record was about 1219 millimeters.
 
US Department of Meteorology Houston office data show that the precipitation data collected from the southern part of Houston, Wendin Road, the statistical time for the local time on August 25 12:00 to 29:00 9:20 am.
 
According to forecasts, precipitation will continue in the next few days, which means that the hurricane "Harvey" or to the Houston area to bring more than 1270 mm of precipitation, more than the normal annual rainfall in the region.
 
Four hurricane "Harvey" is 56 years to Texas experienced the strongest storm, 25 evening landing in the coastal areas of the state, leading to large areas of southern Texas into Zeguo, the local government departments have said at least 11 people in the "Kazakhstan Dimensional "caused by the death of the disaster or accident, nearly 6,000 people take the initiative to go or be rescued to temporary shelter.