Do you think it could rain 48 inches?

I think that she misheard 'four to eight inches'. Even that is exceedingly heavy rainfall for a day's rain, where ever you are. The floods they have recently had in Cumbria (8 feet and rising in the Main Street of Cockermouth) were due to several inches of rain (but they are saying that it is a 'once in a thousand years' event, even so).

Hi, moneymommy. If it would rain this much I can guarantee that we would all have drowned and everything that is standing will be flooded. This is a very scary flood to have this much of rain out of. I hope it never happens. I have never lived through a flood. I have seen and heard it happening to others.. The only closest flood we have ever had was when Hurricane Hugo came. It left water and it was very wet like... But it was not like a flood. It had water like a flood..

I am pretty sure the newsman said 4-8 inches as well. We DID get almost 17 inches of rain here in about 48 hours once, and the flooding was terrible (I live in a low-lying area close to the coast). While it may be POSSIBLE to receive 48 inches of rain at once, I don't think it is very likely. The amount of moisture that would have to build up in the atmosphere would be tremendous. It would take a MASSIVE storm to do this even in a few days. I am pretty sure the really dry places like the deserts of Africa and Australia don't even receive this much rain during their rainy season.

Did she say where it was supposed to rain that much? I guess it could be possible, especially if it was raining for days. I just wouldn't expect it to rain that much all at once for one day.

I will give your daughter credit and say that it is possible that it could. But with that, we are talking about a system staying stationary or multiple systems coming through back-to-back, and it raining non-stop for days. This is making me think of Forrest Gump, when he was describing the rain while he was at war. I will say that it is probable that your daughter mistook "four-to-eight" as "for-ty-eight" (I separated the last word to highlight the similarity). It is a common prediction with storms coming through. Usually they say something similar to, "Expect up to four inches, up to eight inches is possible in some areas."