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    Hawaii Takes A New Spot In U.S. Rainfall Records, After Hurricane Lane Drenches State

    On the Big Island, Mountain View recorded 51.53 inches of rain from Wednesday to Sunday — the third-highest total ever measured from a U.S. storm.
    by Bill Chappell Aug 27, 2018 2 minutes
    A surfer leaves the beach at Honoli'i Beach Park in Hilo, Hawaii, walking through the remains of trees that were swept away by floodwaters from Hurricane Lane. Now a tropical storm, Lane brought heavy rains to Hawaii before it weakened.

    Hurricane Lane drenched parts of Hawaii with 3-4 feet of rainfall, with one weather station tallying the third-highest "total rainfall from a tropical cyclone in the United States since 1950," the National Weather Service says. The slow-moving storm caused floods and landslides as it moved west of the islands, back out

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