Floods in Spain.

[ArMaP]

That's just under 8" of rain.

In two hours.

You know, I was going to complain about not using Freedom-units here, because I thought there's a forum rule for using English -- real English, like in America, not the weird overseas variety -- but then I got distracted by the entirely redundant "square metre" (I'll let the misspelling slide). Wouldn't it also be 200 mm per square decimeter? Or 200 mm per square centimeter? Or kilometer? Okay, I think I've made my point. Perhaps the Orange Laws of 2025 will address this formally.

"Real English" doesn't exist, and in science they use the International System, so the measurements are made in . And I always use European English, in which the spelling is "metres", not "meters".

But you are right in one thing, I should have used either millimetres or kilograms per square metre, not millimetres per square metre.

Please excuse me it is late, and it is today.

Things are what they are, not what you want them to be, regardless of being late or today, and the fact is that at least 217 people died because of "just under 8" of rain".

[UltraBudgie]

Yes you are correct and it is tragic, my apologizes for being saucy -- watching forums where frenzy abounds does not do calm things to my normally leavened disposition.