The East Coast will See Flash Floods this Weekend Due to A Coastal Storm
NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center issued a Level 1 out of 4 flash flood hazard from North Carolina to New Jersey from Friday until early Saturday morning, affecting about 31 million people due to the possibility of heavy rain.
A low-pressure system is expected to form off the mid-Atlantic coast on Friday and move into the Northeast and New England by Friday afternoon, bringing widespread drenching rain and frigid temperatures for mid-April.
This is the second wave of rainy weather for many of these locations. Another low-pressure system crossed the Great Lakes into the Northeast on Thursday, bringing snow and rain to higher elevations.
Parts of the Interstate 95 corridor are at risk of flash floods from late Friday into early Saturday due to the persistently wet weather.
The low-pressure system can form Friday off the mid-Atlantic coast as the jet stream dips south at the end of the workweek.
The storm may produce a few strong to severe thunderstorms to sections of coastal North and South Carolina on Friday as it advances up the coast, according to the Forecast Center. Large hail and destructive winds might result from any storms that do form.
Rain is predicted to fall from Richmond, Virginia, northward to Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston through Sunday, with 1-2 inches of precipitation likely to hit the I-95 corridor in the mid-Atlantic late Friday afternoon.
NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center issued a Level 1 out of 4 flash flood hazard from North Carolina to New Jersey from Friday until early Saturday morning, affecting about 31 million people due to the possibility of heavy rain.
Additionally, this system and this weekend’s full moon may cause some coastal flooding. Additionally, the temperature will remain cold, with highs in New York City just reaching 50 degrees on Saturday.
More rain is expected by the middle of next week, and the weather will continue to be wet and chilly through Sunday before warming up somewhat on Monday and Tuesday.
The most recent NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center forecast also predicts that a cold and rainy weather pattern will persist over most of the Northeast during the next 8 to 14 days.
