By Sarah Juta
The 3.4 million-acre park, (click here) located near the California-Nevada state line, saw 1.46 inches of rain near the Furnace Creek area in three hours—about 75 percent of what that region typically gets in an entire year, according to Jacques Billeaud and Michael R. Blood of the Associated Press (AP).
The rainfall set a new record for the month of August, and it nearly broke the park’s record for the most rain in a single day—1.47 inches—which occurred on April 15, 1988, report Alex Wigglesworth and Harriet Ryan for the Los Angeles Times....
