The National Weather Service had to add a new color to its maps to show Harvey's rainfall
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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The National Weather Service had to add a new color to its maps to show Harvey's rainfall
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