Are you sick of talking about Wednesday's rain? If so you're not going to like Gothamist because we have a little back-to-school math quiz for you. Don't worry, it is only one question!
The average rainfall received Wednesday at Central Park (3.77"), LaGuardia (3.85"), and JFK (2.93") was 3.52 inches. Let's assume that 3.52 inches was the average received over the entire city. That's probably not an accurate assumption, but it will serve our purposes here at Gothamist Weather. According to the Department of City Planning, the city has a land area of 321 square miles.
Using those numbers, plus one more that you'll have to look up yourself, how many Empire State Buildings would it take to hold Wednesday's rainfall?
Today's interesting graphic is courtesy of the Federal Citizen Information Center. What sort of book do you suppose the citizen is informing himself about?
