Drenching rain leads to severe flooding in the Northeast

We are dealing with more heavy rainfall just surging its way on northward, so this is probably what’s capturing your eye. Plenty of wet weather from Charleston, Southwest Virginia, right into western Pennsylvania, including that area of Pittsburgh. And we’re still seeing more of that rain stream right overhead. Some thunderstorms embedded within the heaviest rainfall. You can see. There are not only a lot of flash flood warnings at this point in time, but there is also this flash flood emergency which lasts until midnight. They’re just West of Pittsburgh, so we are dealing with that. There’s already a lot of reports ongoing around the city of flooding going on. So there’s Pittsburgh and you can just see Interstate 376 there at the split with the business, 376 is flooded. So everything closed on that area. And not too far away from this area, by the way, is the Pittsburgh International Airport. So for those trying to travel out there tonight, you’re going to encounter water on roadways where you would not expect it and that is something that you need to use some extra caution for. We do have a flooding. Watch Box in place here for much of this region and we also have some more flooding concerns into New Hampshire and Maine where we’ll get more rain on top of snow. Just keep in mind that that flash flood emergency is a whole different level there and it’s used for where we either already have extreme flooding ongoing that is life threatening. It will be coming shortly and we do have it ongoing because people are stuck in homes, unfortunately stuck in businesses, and they just can’t go anywhere at this point in time. We talk about water and water rises pretty quickly. It only takes a couple of inches to sweep you off your feet. Of course, 6 inches can also carry by certain cars and vehicles and then 12 inches, well, it can actually make your car float. So it really quickly you can encounter some of that dangerous weather rain moving over the Northeast and New England as we head through tonight. Thursday night will be a pretty wet one for many and then the heaviest rain will start to move out Friday morning from places like Boston. Providence and it moves through Maine as we go throughout the later morning, midday time frame. Your Friday does look to be a little wet in Buffalo, at least. Some showers, lingerie lingering. There’s going to be more rain wrapping around in Columbus, even a few thunderstorms possible in Charleston. And keep in mind, with this whole storm system, there’s a lot of wind too, so that can add to power outages. If you have really soggy grounds, you put some wind in it and all of a sudden those trees just cannot withstand this setup. Rainfall continues tonight. You can see a lot of that heavy rain starting lift northward. So tomorrow afternoon we do get some breaks here as that heavier rain starts. Some showers, I should say, work their way back into western Pennsylvania and New York.