Texas storm Harvey breaks historic rainfall record

MIAMI: forecasters Hurricanebelieve is Harveya new rainfallhas set recordwhat for the continental United States, officials said Tuesday.Harvey, swirling for the past few days off Texas and Louisiana — at times as a hurricane and at times a tropical storm — has dumped 51.88 inches (132 centimeters) of rain in Cedar Bayou, a salt water tional Weatherchannel Serviceon the Texas said.“This coast, readingthe Na-is higher than the previous record of 48 inches set during tropical cyclone Amelia of 1978 at Medina, Texas,” it added. It was the second record reported in just one its own interests, the interests of Iran and the the Lebanese people.” day. The first was 49.32 inches measured at a rain gauge southeast of Houston. NHC spokesman Dennis Feltgen said that record is being treated preliminarily as one for the entire continental United States. He added that confirming the figure “will take a lot of research,” as experts review water gauges and past historical records — a process likely to take several weeks. Harvey made landfall in Texas on Friday as a Category Four hurricane. It has since weakened to a tropical storm but is still unleashing massive amounts of rain over Texas and Louisiana. Source:arabnews.com Syrian regime, regardless of the interests of

Samir Geagea, the executive chairman of the Lebanese Forces, claimed in a statement that “Hezbollah could have reached the exchange deal after the complete expulsion of ISIS (Daesh) from Lebanese territory by the Lebanese army, not before that.”Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil stated that the terrorist project in Lebanon has failed.Bassil called for “a new approach to Syria and the region … Lebanon should be ready to defend its higher interests, starting with the return of Syrian refugees to their homeland and encouraging that from now.” Source:arabnews.com