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More than 4 inches of rainfall reported in Greencastle area
In another of those thank-goodness-it-wasn’t-snow wet weekends, the Greencastle area endured more than four inches of rain, the National Weather Service reported.
The total amount of rain logged in northwest of Greencastle at 8 a.m. Sunday was 4.04 inches, according to the Weather Service.
Meanwhile, at 7 a.m. Sunday, a reporting area southwest of Reelsville showed 3.59 inches of rain
Any way you look at it, if it had been mid-January cold that would have meant two feet of snow or more in the area.
The heavy rains caused flooding in some low-lying areas around Reelsville and the Oakalla Bridge in Madison Township, and resulted in the closing of State Road 42 at the Putnam-Morgan county line.
Area rainfall totals near five inches were reported northeast of McCormick’s Creek State Park in Owen County with 4.86 inches of rain and Nora in northeast Marion County at 4.71 inches.
More than four inches of rain was also reported west of Stinesville in Owen County (4.34 inches) and southwest of Paragon in Morgan County (4.02 inches).
Among contiguous counties, Clay County reported in with 3.95 inches at Clay City and 3.38 northwest of Bowling Green. Parke County showed 3.62 inches near Rockville, while the only Montgomery County report the Weather Service showed was 2.27 inches at New Ross.
The rain began overnight Thursday into Friday and by 4 p.m. Friday, the National Weather Service had recorded 1.57 inches of rainfall near Indianapolis International Airport. That broke the record of 1.29 inches set on that date in 1924.