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The storm formerly known as Hurricane Beryl brought a lot of rain. Here are the rainfall totals from when the rains began Monday evening to when the rains ended Wednesday evening.

The axis of the heavy rain was the swath from southwest to northeast through southern Lower Michigan. This was the classic textbook view of a large storm system extending across all latitudes. A storm like this, which follows the textbook pattern, has a band of heavy rain with subsequent bands of lighter rain as you move south and north from the heaviest band. It is very similar to the view of a heavy snow swath in a winter storm.

The storm also brought some very small, heavier rainfall events embedded in the widespread heavy rain swath. These small areas of very heavy rainfall were created by a combination of 2-3 inch thunderstorms embedded in the overall rain area. This resulted in the highest recorded rainfall of 7.05 inches being reached in Richfield, which is northeast of Flint and five miles north of Davison.

Anywhere on the map that is yellow had at least two inches of rain. The more orange colors had 3 to 4 inches. Many cities were in that range of rainfall. The pink colors had 5 to 7 inches of rain.

Here are the specific precipitation amounts for many cities. These are the total amounts of rainfall that fell over 1 inch, sorted from highest to lowest.

The eastern part of Genesee County, east of Flint, was hit the hardest, with 6 to 7 inches of rain. The Marshall region of southwest Michigan received the second-highest rainfall, with a single torrential thunderstorm at the beginning of the main rains. East Lansing was hit the third hardest, with 5 inches of rain. About 3 inches of that rain fell in just one hour at the beginning of the storm.

Get ready to start mowing the lawn and killing mosquitoes.