The
National Weather Service had to add a new
color to its
maps to
show Harvey's rainfall
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Sometimes a
Weather event comes along that is so extreme it exceeds the ability of
Weather forecasters to accurately represent it on a map. That is the case with Hurricane Harvey, which weakened to a tropical storm on Saturday and dumped so much rain on southeastern Texas that the
National Weather Service's (NWS)
maps needed to be altered.*
With more than 30 inches of rain falling in just a few days, the NWS added a lavender layer to its rainfall map to indicate areas that have already seen what it has called "unfathomable" amounts of rain.
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