The race took seven hours to complete after rain stopped it for 3 hours, 36 minutes midway through the event.
Data suggests Eskdalemuir in Dumfries and Galloway had 249mm of rain and 68.6 hours of sunshine - more rain and less sun than it had in the past 10 years.
Authorities say some areas had as much as 300mm of rain in 24 hours, whilst the normal monthly average for this time of year is around 270mm.
Fukushima prefecture, which was devastated by the 2011 tsunami, saw more than 30 centimeters (1 foot) of rain in 48 hours -- the heaviest downpour there in 50 years, NHK said.
Harrow Estates said it would increase testing if more than 6mm of rain fell within 24 hours.
In parts of Tochigi, more than 50 centimeters (1.6 feet) of rain fell in 24 hours, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported.
Parts of the Calder Valley, including Hebden Bridge, saw a month's worth of rain fall in three hours.
Wendlebury Brook burst its banks after 33mm (1.3 inches) of rain fell in six hours on Thursday morning.
The Met Office said 3in (7cm) of rain fell in three hours in the worst-affected area, Duncton in West Sussex.
Over 500 homes were flooded in Lancashire and West Yorkshire when a month's rain fell in 24 hours between 23 and 24 June.
Though the Philippines is no stranger to floods, Saturday's downpours approached a record, with a month's worth of rain falling within six hours.
And on Sunday, after nearly two hours of rain-affected racing, some of that slipped away from Marussia as Pic left the corner behind Petrov.
In Brazil the forested mountains behind Rio de Janeiro received a third more rain in just 24 hours than in the whole of last January.
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In June, a month's worth of rain fell in 24 hours in Ceredigion, hitting Aberystwyth and surrounding villages, trapping people in their homes and flooding caravan parks.
Caravan parks and villages near Aberystwyth were inundated by floodwater when twice as much rain fell in 24 hours than normally falls in the area in the whole of June.
Continuous rainfalls had pounded parts of Xianning in Hubei beginning late Thursday, breaking a 200-year record of a massive 11.8 inches of rain in just four hours, leading to flooding.
Hundreds of parents waited for hours in the rain for word of their children.
Some 24 hours of intermittent rain forced Monday's prime-time start -- the first since the inaugural race in 1959.
Inundated parts of eastern Japan will get another 5-10 centimeters (2-4 inches) of rain over the next 36 hours, CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam said Thursday.
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On July 2, 2011, a cloud burst inundated Copenhagen with 6 inches of rain in less than three hours, flooding cellars, streets, and key roads.
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Mozambican Foreign Minister Leonardo Simao warned that the rain of the past 48 hours could cause rivers to burst again and re-flood areas just beginning to dry out.
To make matters worse, more than 100 were killed and hundreds made homeless in the state this week as hours of torrential rain triggered mudslides in poorer areas.
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We showed it during the recent Diamond Jubilee celebrations, when hours of pouring rain actually seemed to encourage the British crowd to have even more of a good time.
Yesterday, passengers were waiting in the rain for up to three hours just to get inside of the terminal, and that's before they have to go through additional security checks.
"Let's not understate the case that we had 36 hours remorseless heavy rain, unprecedented levels of rainfall and we've seen and we've seen the consequences of that, " said Ceredigion MP Mark Williams.
The Queen, her husband Prince Philip, and other members of the Royal Family, sailed down the Thames during the pageant and then moored for hours in the rain to watch the vessels sail past.
Play was delayed for four hours because of persistent rain in the morning and was eventually reduced to 25 overs.
Andrew Strauss enforced the follow-on after the start of play was held up by rain for two and a quarter hours.
At 77-0 overnight, the tourists only needed 43 more to win but rain held them up for seven hours on day four.
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