How Much Rain Fell On Long Island? Quite A Lot.

LONG ISLAND, NY — The storm that hit Long Island Wednesday night dropped a tremendous amount of water over the area, though it may not seem like it.

The storm caused flooding along the South Shore, making some roads and areas impassible for hours. Data from the National Weather Service shows how much rain fell over the course of the storm.

Though the storm surge created flooding along the South Shore, the highest areas of rainfall were actually in the central and northern parts of the Island.

An average of about 1.5 inches fell across the Island during the storm. The US Geological Service has a tool that calculates how much actual water fell during the storm. According to them, 1.5 inches of rain over all of Long Island is equal to 31,933,104,000 gallons.

An Olympic swimming pool is about 660,000 gallons. Which means that more than 48,400 pools-worth of water fell over the Island in just a few hours.

Here is how much rainfall was recorded, in inches, in different areas by the National Weather Service:

Nassau County

• HICKSVILLE: 1.83
• PORT WASHINGTON: 1.82
• GREAT NECK: 1.82
• HERRICKS: 1.81
• MUTTONTOWN: 1.78
• LEVITTOWN: 1.58
• SYOSSET: 1.56
• NORTH MASSAPEQUA: 1.49
• CARLE PLACE: 1.47
• SEA CLIFF: 1.34
• LEVITTOWN: 1.3
• OYSTER BAY: 1.29
• MASSAPEQUA PARK: 1.24
• EAST HILLS: 1.24
• BRANCHVILLE: 1.18
• MUTTONTOWN: 1.18
• WANTAGH: 1.15
• BELLMORE: 1.13
• VALLEY STREAM: 1.13
• MASSAPEQUA: SE 1.1
• BELLMORE: 1.08
• EAST ROCKAWAY: 1.07
• MERRICK: 1.01

Suffolk County

• BAITING HOLLOW: 1.95
• FARMINGVILLE: 1.87
• CENTERPORT: 1.84
• CENTEREACH: 1.82
• EASTPORT: 1.82
• SOUTHOLD: 1.82
• REMSENBURG-SPEONK: 1.8
• MELVILLE: 1.8
• WESTHAMPTON AIRPORT: 1.76
• MILLER PLACE: 1.74
• STONY BROOK: 1.71
• SMITHTOWN: 1.69
• MATTITUCK: 1.68
• UPTON: 1.66
• SETAUKET-EAST SETAUKET: 1.66
• SAINT JAMES: 1.62
• CENTER MORICHES: 1.61
• ORIENT POINT: 1.56
• MILLER PLACE: 1.56
• ORIENT: 1.56
• SAYVILLE: 1.55
• BLUE POINT: 1.55
• MONTAUK AIRPORT: 1.53
• MATTITUCK: 1.53
• SHIRLEY: 1.53
• DEER PARK: 1.52
• SHIRLEY AIRPORT: 1.51
• DIX HILLS: 1.48
• SAYVILLE: 1.46
• FISHERS ISLAND: 1.44
• ISLIP TERRACE: 1.44
• NORTH PATCHOGUE: 1.44
• PORT JEFFERSON STATION: 1.42
• KINGS PARK: 1.38
• RIDGE: 1.38
• SHIRLEY: 1.37
• ISLIP AIRPORT: 1.36
• EAST HAMPTON: 1.36
• SAGTIKOS PARKWAY: 1.36
• PATCHOGUE: 1.34
• AMITYVILLE: 1.32
• BRIDGEHAMPTON: 1.31
• NESCONSET: 1.31
• SOUTHOLD: 1.29
• AMITYVILLE: 1.19
• BRIGHTWATERS: 1.16
• HUNTINGTON: 1.11
• N. BABYLON: 1.1
• AMITYVILLE: 1.08
• WEST ISLIP: 1.08
• SHINNECOCK HILLS: 1.08