Thursday, April 15, 2010

Isohyet


Isohyets are lines drawn through geographical points linking equal amounts of precipitation during a specific period. The isohyets on this map are showing the rainfall in Colorado. This map shows where rainfall was at it's greatest causing extreme flooding and five deaths found at the two red X's.

http://www.assessment.ucar.edu/flood/img/fclflood_rain.gif

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