Tuesday was a real oddball, breaking two Redding weather records
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Amid a summer of smoky skies, drought and record-breaking heat, the weather in the North State broke or tied several different records Tuesday.
The National Weather Service said it recorded 0.01 inches of rain at the Redding Municipal Airport on Tuesday. That's one one-hundredth of an inch.
Put another way, that's an inch sliced up into 100 wafer-thin sections.
It may not seem like much rain — enough to get your windshield dirty — but it set a new rainfall record for the date, said Emily Heller, a meteorologist for the weather service.