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How Much Rain? See Local Tropical Storm Elsa Totals
From nearly 4 inches in Sudbury to just a trace on Nantucket, see Elsa rain totals from across Massachusetts.
SUDBURY, MA — By Saturday morning, Tropical Storm Elsa was far to our northeast and quickly disintegrating — but the storm left a lot of inundated basements, soggy yards and flooded roadways in its wake.
The National Weather Service has released rainfall totals from the daylong storm, and it appears an area between Sudbury and Westwood got the biggest soaking. Those two towns came in just shy of 4 inches each.
But rain totals varied greatly by region, with almost no rainfall on Cape Cod, and plenty of spots with just 2 inches in Essex County. Two rainfall records were broken on Friday. Worcester hit 2.47 inches, breaking the 1964 record for July 10 of 1.15 inches. At 2.04 inches, Providence broke the 1962 record of 1.31 inches.
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Saturday should be dry (but cloudy) across the state. A chance of more rain returns Sunday night continuing into Monday. Here are the rain totals as of Friday evening, according to the weather service:
Bristol County
- Attleboro 2.65 inches
- Easton 2.38 inches
- Raynham 2.05 inches
- Taunton 1.79 inches
- Norton 1.62 inches
Essex County
- Beverly 3.02 inches
- Lynn 2.97 inches
- Gloucester 2.60 inches
- Methuen 2.54 inches
- Danvers 2.20 inches
- Lynnfield 2.15 inches
- North Andover 2.05 inches
- Marblehead 2.01 inches
- Tewksbury 1.95 inches
Middlesex County
- Sudbury 3.93 inches
- Arlington 3.61 inches
- Wayland 3.16 inches
- Hopkinton 3.05 inches
- Woburn 2.86 inches
- Chelmsford 2.66 inches
- Somerville 2.66 inches
- Natick 2.60 inches
- Acton 2.57 inches
- Marlborough 2.54 inches
- Malden 2.52 inches
- Melrose 2.40 inches
- Reading 2.29 inches
- Newton 2.17 inches
- Weston 1.93 inches
- Wakefield 1.83 inches
- Concord 1.80 inches
- Medford 1.69 inches
Norfolk County
- Westwood 3.95 inches
- Millis 3.64 inches
- Walpole 3.13 inches
- Sharon 3.08 inches
- Norwood Airport 2.89 inches
- Blue Hills 2.88 inches
- Wellesley 2.68 inches
- Dedham 2.32 inches
- Needham 2.21 inches
- Canton 1.98 inches
- Plymouth County
- Brockton 2.11 inches
- Plymouth 1.76 inches
- Abington 1.75 inches
- Scituate 1.56 inches
Suffolk County
- Charlestown 2.36 inches
- Chelsea 2.29 inches
- Allston 2.24 inches
- Boston 2.22 inches
- Logan Airport 1.87 inches
Worcester County
- Leominster 3.38 inches
- Sutton 3.21 inches
- Northborough 3.02 inches
- Shrewsbury 2.53 inches
- Worcester Airport 2.53 inches
- Milford 2.16 inches
- Charlton 2.12 inches
- Southwest Worcester 1.86 inches
- Southborough 1.61 inches
Cape Cod and the Islands
- Chatham 0.10 inches
- Hyannis 0.56 inches
- Martha's Vineyard 0.02 inches
- Nantucket 0.04 inches
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