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If it seemed like it rained a lot on Saturday, May 3, you're not wrong. Columbus set a new rainfall record for the date May 3 with 1.39 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington. That beat the previous record of 1.16 inches set in 2011. The weather service reported at 5 p.m. May 3 that the record had been broken with 1.32 inches of rain recorded, but continued rainfall into the evening and night added to the day's total. Some areas around central Ohio received...