An unusually strong and moist front for April will continue to bring rounds of rain and locally severe thunderstorms over the central and southern parts of the Florida Peninsula through Wednesday.
The front has already delivered nearly an entire month's worth of rain in some areas since arriving this past weekend, and a few more inches are forecast to fall on some communities into midweek.
On Sunday, April 18, 2021, both Gainesville and Leesburg, Florida, set daily rainfall records. At Gainesville, 1.10 inches of rain fell and broke the record of 0.95 of an inch set way back in 1912. Leesburg, located about 48 miles northwest of Orlando, received 0.61 of an inch of rain on Sunday, which broke the old record of 0.42 of an inch set back in 2019.
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