Over the past 30 hours we’ve had two separate rains.  The first, a sustained thunderstorm that lasted for several hours, dropped almost a half an inch in our rain gauge.  The second, which started yesterday afternoon and rained continually until about an hour ago dropped almost an inch and a half (picture below).  This kind of continuous rain over a 24 hour period is a real rarity for our part of the country.  Very, very welcome.