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    <p>HURRICANE Harvey has set what forecasters believe is a new rainfall record for the continental United States, officials said yesterday.</p>

<p>Harvey, swirling for the past few days off Texas and Louisiana – at times as a hurricane and at times a tropical storm – has dumped 132 centimeters of rain in Cedar Bayou, a salt water channel on the Texas coast, the National Weather Service said.</p>

<p>"This reading is higher than the previous record of 121.9cm set during tropical cyclone Amelia of 1978 at Medina, Texas," it added.</p>

<p>It was the second record reported in just one day. The first was 125.3cm measured at a rain gauge southeast of Houston.</p>

<p>NHC spokesman Dennis Feltgen said that record is being treated preliminarily as one for the entire continental United States.</p>

<p>He added that confirming the figure "will take a lot of research," as experts review water gauges and past historical records – a process likely to take several weeks.</p>

<p>Harvey made landfall in Texas on Friday as a Category Four hurricane. It has since weakened to a tropical storm but is still unleashing massive amounts of rain over Texas and Louisiana. – AFP, August 30, 2017.</p>
    

    
    
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