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On today's date: Réunion Island has smashed world records

In the last week of February of two separate storms, an N-island in southern Indian Ocean presented several still standing records of the World Lower Schlag.

From February 28th to 29th, 1964, 61 years ago this week, the cyclone of Category 1 Réunion Island, a French territory, beat around 450 miles east of Madagascar. But it wasn't really about the winds.

The reporting in Belouve measured the following phenomenal precipitation from Giselle, all world records according to the weather historian Christopher Burt:

-30.16 inches in 6 hours

-42.79 inches in 9 hours

-52.76 inches in 12 hours

-66.49 inches in 18.5 hours

It is almost as much rain as Miami in less than 24 hours average over a year (67.41 inches).

18 years ago, Réunion Island was another record from February 24 to 27, 2007, which had measured 154.72 inch rain in 72 hours and 194.33 inches in 96 hours.

Réunions productive precipitation is due to its location in a alley of tropical cyclones of the South Ocean, which is reinforced by its terrain. It has several volcanic peaks, one of which reaches a little more than 10,000 feet.

Misistic winds of slowly moving storms, including tropical cyclones, are raised strongly by réunions, sharp terrain, which reinforces the precipitation rates.

The location of Réunion Island, about 450 miles east of Madagascar and the path of Cyclone Giselle at the end of February and early March 1964.

(Track data: Noaa)

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Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at Weather.com and has covers national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Apply to him BlueskyPresent X (formerly Twitter) And Facebook.

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