More than 130 millimeters (5.1 inches) of rain fell Wednesday night and Thursday morning in and around the northern Israeli city of Nahariya, setting a new national record for the amount of rainfall measured in a single day during September.

Most of the rain fell within two hours, in what the Israel Meteorological Service described in a statement as “extremely abnormal” for September. It was the most rain to fall in September since measurements began, and broke a record of 95.7 millimeters (3.76 inches) recorded on a single day — September 12, 1932 — in Gush Etzion, near Jerusalem.

Large amounts of rain also fell in other areas of northern Israel, including the Golan Heights, the eastern Galilee, and the Gilboa region.

But it was in the Nahariya area that the record was smashed. At the weather station on Moshav Regba, 143 millimeters (5.6 inches) of rain fell, followed by 135 millimeters (5.3 inches) at Kibbutz Evron, and 132 millimeters (5.19 inches) at Moshav Shavei Zion. Local drainage problems in Nahariya saw the Ga’aton stream flooding as 118 millimeters (4.65 inches) of precipitation pounded down.

Acre registered rainfall of 87 mm (3.4........

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