By Nick Wiltgen
Published: September 29, 2014
The
litany of flash floods caused by extraordinarily heavy rainfall in 2014
grew even longer Monday after record-shattering rainfall struck one of
southern France's largest cities.
Montpellier, a city of 264,000
along France's Mediterranean coast, was hit with 252 millimeters (9.92
inches) of rain in just 3 hours, between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. local time (9
a.m. and noon EDT in the U.S.). The exceptionally heavy rain flooded
streets and quickly sent the river Lez out of its banks in the city
center.
As of 8 p.m. local time, the city had tallied 295.6
millimeters (11.63 inches) of rain for the day, amounting to 47 percent
of the city's average annual rainfall of 24.77 inches.
http://www.wunderground.com/news/montpellier-france-flash-flood-vigilance-rouge-20140929
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