The skies opened and bellowed for hours with torrential thunderstorms shutting down the Boca Raton Airport and setting a record in West Palm Beach where 2.37 inches of rain fell in a 24-hour period beginning early on Oct. 26.
Stoked by a gooey warm ribbon of air stalled over Central Florida and a knotty trough of energy traveling fast and high overhead, the storms that convened along Palm Beach County’s coast triggered flash-flood warnings that cautioned 3 to 5 inches of rain had fallen in Boca Raton in a single hour with up to 2 more inches expected before midnight approached.
The warning was later slapped with the “considerable” label — a rare escalation issued when flash flooding is unusually severe…