2024 may have been the rainiest – as well as hottest – year on record

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2024 may have been the rainiest – as well as hottest – year on record

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Flooding in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene in Atlanta, Georgia, in September 2024

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In 2024, Earth received about 2.9 millimetres of rain per day. That may not sound like much, but it could represent a new record amount of precipitation for the planet.

Last year’s global average precipitation was about 3 per cent greater than the average since records began in 1983, and it just surpasses the previous record, set in 1998. The 2.9-millimetre number, based on preliminary

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compiled by researchers at the Global Precipitation Climatology Project, may still change slightly as the data…

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