Heavy storms at the moment are reaching the East Coast as a Nor’easter heads towards New England forward of the vacation journey interval for Memorial Day weekend.
As a low-pressure system from the Mid-Atlantic strikes out to sea, it’ll change into a Nor’easter and transfer up the New England coast.
This late season Nor’easter will deliver chilly windswept heavy rain to New England, together with Boston, on Thursday — with wind gusts as much as 50 mph and the potential for minor coastal flooding.
The soaking rain will seemingly come to an finish for Boston on Friday morning, however pockets of showers stay doable Friday afternoon into Saturday because the system continues north.
With scattered showers remaining in New England on Saturday, it gained’t be utterly dry once more till Sunday as rainfall totals of 1 to three inches are anticipated by way of a lot of the Northeast Wednesday by way of Saturday.
Storms have additionally now reached the East Coast and although most aren’t anticipated to be extreme, just a few scattered extreme storms have been reported early Wednesday morning within the Southeast.
Washington, D.C. can have rain showers by 8 a.m. whereas thunderstorms are anticipated additional south of Richmond and Norfolk in Virginia.
FILE – The stays of a kitchen surrounded by particles after extreme storms within the Sunshine Hills neighborhood in London, Ky., Could 19, 2025.
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Elsewhere, Philadelphia is anticipating a wet morning and New York Metropolis can have occasional showers by way of the afternoon, however a washout shouldn’t be anticipated at this time.
Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania are beneath a flood watch by way of Wednesday evening as a result of 1 to three inches of rain is feasible which can create river, stream flooding and different low-lying flood-prone areas to change into saturated as city areas may expertise flooding from extreme rainfall.
On Wednesday afternoon, just a few robust storms are additionally doable in jap North Carolina and, in a single day, robust storms are doable in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas.
In the meantime, within the final 48 hours alone, not less than 31 tornadoes have been reported throughout 9 states from Oklahoma to Alabama, with 11 tornadoes putting Alabama, Illinois, Tennessee and Arkansas alone on Tuesday.
Baseball-sized hail was reported in Tennessee and Alabama on Tuesday evening as wind gusts stronger than 70 mph had been recorded in Tennessee in a single day.
