Wet weather is returning to the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast for mid-May.
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00:00It's a slow-moving storm, so that's bringing some higher rain totals for some of us.
00:05And for some into Virginia, into parts of Maryland, we're looking at flood watches
00:09because of how much rainfall we're getting in a pretty short period of time.
00:13So a look at what's to come, but let's take a look at what is happening now.
00:17Kind of a zoomed-in look at radar in the Ohio Valley.
00:19We're seeing that rain into places like Virginia moving its way into the D.C. metro area.
00:25We'll see this continue to work farther into the Northeast as the overnight goes on.
00:30And into tomorrow, we're going to look like this.
00:32Now, there's a couple different things that you're going to see depending on exactly where you are.
00:36I want to highlight the heaviest thunderstorm area.
00:38It's in the darkest green here and does include the Washington, D.C. metro area.
00:43Now, I'm highlighting this because this is where we could see some locally damaging wind gusts,
00:47some small hail, not widespread severe weather.
00:49You know, we don't have a severe risk map for tomorrow.
00:52But just know that some of these thunderstorms could be on the stronger side.
00:56The other thing to keep an eye on here, I mentioned it's a slow-moving storm.
01:00And this should give you an idea of just that Wednesday, the footprint.
01:03Not that different than Tuesday, which is also why we end up with kind of that flooding concern.
01:09Take a look at future radar and how this plays out timing-wise.
01:12Now, we're stopping Tuesday 7 a.m. first.
01:15Give you an idea of who is going to be impacted on your morning commute.
01:18You know, heading to work, school, wherever you're heading first thing in the morning.
01:20Places like Pittsburgh, even parts of New Jersey, kind of scattered shower or two moving into New York City,
01:26but not widespread rainfall at that point.
01:28That comes later in the day.
01:30But watch what happens as we move into Wednesday.
01:32It becomes more scattered.
01:34But places like New Jersey, for example, where we do have those elevated drought conditions,
01:39you are getting round after round of rainfall.
01:41So that is going to be helpful.
01:43But it's the same kind of situation that leads to the flooding.
01:46So it's a pro-con kind of situation.
01:47We're looking at days of rainfall once again.
01:50Wednesday into Thursday, we continue with the scattered showers and thunderstorms.
01:54So be prepared.
01:55Have the umbrella on standby.
01:56Hopefully it's not even out of your car because we had, you know, days of rainfall not that long ago.
02:00This is the area we're most concerned about the flooding, and you can see why.
02:03Look at these rain totals.
02:04Some getting two to four inches of rain overall.
02:07And AccuWeather local storm acts of six inches of rain.
02:09And the D.C. metro area, you're mostly in the one to two area.
02:14But anyone highlighted in green on this map is likely to see at least some ponding,
02:18if not some more widespread flash flooding.
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