Wide weather extremes
<p>Brionn Tripp, of Post Falls, darts to her vehicle Friday, looking for shelter from a torrential rain storm in Coeur d'Alene. The storm carried heavy rainfall, hale, wind and lightning across much of North Idaho.</p>
With Kootenai County under a severe thunderstorm warning on Friday afternoon, Coeur d'Alene saw water coming down hard and heavy, if only for a few hours.
Kootenai Electric and Avista reported scattered power outages throughout the region, with roughly 400 in the dark by late afternoon.
Coeur d'Alene had collected .26 inches of precipitation by 5 p.m. on Friday.
That put the city up to 29.09 inches for the year so far.
Less than 10 inches more is needed to beat the record annual rainfall of 38.77 inches set in 1996.