Image credit: Courtesy Paul Chesley (from my book Extreme Weather A Guide and Record Book). when 49.69” of rainfall was measured on April 14-15, 2018.
Waialeale, measured the greatest rainfall in any 24-hour period anywhere in the U.S. Last year, Waipa Gardens, located about 10 miles north of Mt. historical record for wettest single month, when 148.83” of rain was measured during the month of March 1982. Waialeale, on Hawaii’s Kauai Island, holds the U.S.