Southeastern Geographer

During the past few decades, excessive rainstorms in the southeastern United States have been abundant and the magnitudes impressive. For this reason, magnitudes of heavy rainfall were analyzed across the region for long-term trends and to evaluate storm magnitudes with temperature fluctuations. Statistical analysis found a tendency toward increasing values region-wide. Further, associations with temperature demonstrated spatial coherence in Texas, where cooler periods lead to larger annual storm events, but this pattern broke down in states farther east. Spatial patterns in precipitation annual maxima time series are also discussed through means of summary statistics.