Forecasters say up to 50mm (2in) of rain could fall in parts of the country on Saturday, and the Met Office has issued an early severe weather warning.
Parts of the Calder Valley, including Hebden Bridge, saw a month's worth of rain fall in three hours.
In southern California for example, over the last 150 years the most common amount of rain fall is 13 inches but the second most common is 26 inches.
While Isaac is likely to become a hurricane today, Fugate and Knabb urged those in the path of the storm to focus less on its particular classification and more on the storm's size and the potential for a storm surge that could reach 6 to 12 feet -- as well as record levels of rain fall.
He said the incident was probably the result of "recent weather changes we are having - particularly heavy rain fall and the start of a cold snap".
Hundreds of people have been evacuated as heavy rain continued to fall on Sunday, with the towns of Gladstone and Bundaberg preparing for the possibility of major floods.
On Friday, the Met Office said 46mm (2in) of rain was needed to fall before 31 December to break the record for the UK, with 1, 291.2mm (50in) having been recorded between 1 January and 26 December.
On Friday, the Met Office said just 46mm (2in) of rain was needed to fall before 31 December to break the record for the UK, with 1, 291.2mm (50in) having been recorded between 1 January and 26 December.
Meteorologist Jeff Masters notes today that although the storm surge has pushed salt water from the Gulf as far as 314 miles upstream, all the rain expected to fall north of New Orleans in the coming days will help raise near record-low water levels on the river and flush the salt water back out.
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While Alonso sat further ahead with hopes of a third world title beginning to surface, the rain began to fall, leaving the drivers at the mercy of the elements.
Better to watch the rain fall in the branches of winter trees.
Wine character fluctuates with each vintage dependent on how cool or how warm it got, the amount of rain in the spring and fall, the wind and even the bird population.
Thursday afternoon, rain began to fall on the thousands of people gathered under an overhang at the city's convention center.
Rain began to fall at the start of the second set, but there was still time for Federer to break before play was suspended for 20 minutes - and when it resumed he secured the double break.
Since rising air causes clouds to form (the risen air eventually cools to the temperature of its elevated surroundings, and any water vapour it contains thus condenses), the result would be more rain than would fall in the absence of the artificial aerosols.
Unusually high rain fall in January prompted several hundred reports of pot holes from members of the public.
Engineers said they believed the rock fall was caused by a combination of heavy rain followed by cold temperatures.
Heavy rain fall over the past three days has affected many areas of north Wales and the River Clywedog is reported to be swollen.
Just before the 10-minute mark the forecast rain began to fall but England soon opened the scoring through the boot of Wilkinson after All Blacks captain Richie McCaw infringed at a ruck.
As a slight rain started to fall, each woman opened a wide umbrella, a rainbow of polka dots popping up amid the ocean of green.
They said the rock fall was believed to have been caused by a combination of heavy rain followed by cold temperatures.
There were fears that the roof of the atrium was so high that the building would have its own weather and rain would fall on the guests.
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