Experts say more than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it. One says the stunning number has the fingerprints of climate change on it.

Meteorologists are monitoring a disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico that will bring rain to the Florida peninsula later this week.

More than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it — an unheard of amount of water that has stunned experts.