Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021 | 1:20 p.m.
The amount of rain that fell in Reno the last two days was nearly as much as the previous 12 months combined as rainfall records fell across much of northern Nevada, the National Weather Service said Tuesday.
The 2.92 (7.4 cm) inches of rain recorded at Reno-Tahoe International Airport Sunday and Monday was the highest 2-day total ever in October and third highest of any month since the service started keeping records in 1893.
The total was just .09 inch (.22 cm) shy of rainfall for the entire previous water year running Oct. 1, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021, the service said.
The 1.88 inches (4.5 cm) recorded at the airport Sunday broke the old daily record of 0.86 inch (2 cm) dating to 1951.
Monday's 1.03 inches (2.6 cm) eclipsed the previous mark of 0.82 (2.1 cm) set in 1982.
Other new records included one that stood for 125 years in Ely, where 1.05 inches (2.7 cm) smashed the old mark of .25 (.63 cm) set in 1896.
The 1.17 inches (2.9 cm) at Elko broke the old record of .39 (1 cm) set in 1998. Other new records were Eureka .62 (1.6 cm), Tonopah .63 (1.6 cm) and Winnemucca 0.96 (2.4 cm).
