Rain, rain, and then some rain

Close to three inches of rain in just one hour closed down the Småland city of Jönköping by Vättern. 

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  “Rain, rain go away…” Jönköping experienced the kind of rain a city like that only gets to experience once every hundred years, when 68 millimiters came down in just an hour.

• Rain, rain, and then some rain
  “The best one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain,” American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said. He should have seen Jönköping the other day, when 68 millimeters (or 2.6 inches) of rain came down in just one hour. As a result of this record shower, the city was knocked out. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Jan-Erik Bengtsson, head of the sewage system in Jönköping. The downpour was heavy but luckily short. Several buildings, including the county hospital and the mall A6, were flooded and the activity ceased. The important highway E4, which runs through Jönköping, was also flooded and cars were forced to turn around and drive against traffic in order to escape the waters. Bengtsson called it a “100-årsregn”, a 100-year rain, which is a rain that according to statistics only occurs once every hundred years.

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  2.6 inches of rain in one hour knocked out the city of Jönköping the other day.

• Planning to go? Check the weather first... Here's a link to the city's official web Jönköpings kommun