Millions of people along the flooded Interstate 95 corridor on the East Coast are bracing for another round of rain from the storm, which is moving north up the East Coast, including into Baltimore. Work continues in Baltimore after a catastrophic bridge collapse early Tuesday morning.
Many cities along the East Coast, including Providence, Rhode Island, Hartford, Connecticut, New York City, and Philadelphia, have already experienced one of their five wettest years on record.
The next round of heavy rain is expected to continue into Thursday as a cold front approaches from the west.
The FOX Prediction Center predicts a strengthening low pressure system will pull moisture directly from the Atlantic Ocean, bringing moderate to heavy rain from the Carolinas to New England.
Forecast models say the front’s location and low pressure will continue to bring the heaviest rain to parts of North Carolina, Virginia and eastern New England, with the potential for more than 3 to 5 inches of rain to fall in parts of Maine. be.
The densely populated Interstate 95 corridor, which runs from Washington and Baltimore through Philadelphia and New York City, is expected to see much less rain, about half an inch to an inch.
That’s good news for these areas, which experienced record rainfall last weekend.
The ground is still very saturated, so further flooding is possible even without rain.
Snow is also expected
As a low pressure system deepens in the Gulf of Maine on Friday, precipitation could change from rain to heavy, wet snow in parts of New Vermont as colder air pushes into the backside of the storm, the FOX Prediction Center said. Announced. Hampshire and Maine.
The FOX Prediction Center is not predicting significant snowfall from this storm.
However, northern parts of Maine could see 5 to 8 inches of snow before the storm weakens.
