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Severe storms to leave the Northeast saturated just in time for Debby's impacts
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8/7/2024
Severe thunderstorms are soaking the Northeast early this week, leaving behind a soggy mess just before Debby tracks up the East Coast with even more rain.
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to help us break down the forecast with also a touch of what's going on right now in the northeast
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separate from Debbie we're joined now by AccuWeather hurricane expert and also northeast forecast
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expert Matt and Ben so Matt thanks for making time for us here today uh you know separate from Debbie
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there's a trough in the northeast not quite deep enough to scoop Debbie up but it is causing some
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trouble out there right now and really the precursor of what's going to be some issues
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with Debbie later on this week so we're dealing with this trough digging through the northeast
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producing widespread not only heavy rain but severe weather concerns here for this evening
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stretching from Ohio all the way back to New Jersey parts of New York and of course a good
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chunk of Pennsylvania that is the main concern here for this evening the heavy rain threat but
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then on top of that we have flash flooding isolated tornadoes and the risk for severe
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thunderstorms with strong gusty winds but it's a fact that these storms are just training over
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the same spot they keep moving over these similar spots that they're producing heavy rainfall
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that's leading to the flooding threat here across portions of the northeast and especially
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through the central Appalachians that'll be the concern Jeff as we headed this evening and into
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tonight and Matt if we take radar we can zoom in on the New York metro a lot of pavement here about
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22 million people facing a flash flood threat in the immediate New York metro and right now we have
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some ongoing flash flooding on the north side and we have additional heavy rain coming in from north
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central New Jersey so the concern Matt is pretty significant in these areas that have lots of
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pavement and accelerated runoff so how do you expect the evening to play out here in New York
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and even parts of the Philadelphia metro yeah a couple rounds moving through here Jeff so you
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have one round moving through now you look towards central Pennsylvania there's another round of
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storms and then the third round back into the western part of Pennsylvania all these moving
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from west to east inundating similar areas that have been hit hard already so obviously all the
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rain coming down at once not a good thing because like you mentioned so many so much the area is
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paved the water has to go somewhere and unfortunately it just piles up in a lot of spots
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so a couple rounds of heavy rainfall into tonight is going to exasperate the flooding concerns here
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in the northeast particularly the major metro areas and then if we jump ahead to the future of
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Debbie kind of finally by Friday we expect Debbie to begin to move and that'll be a help to the
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southeast but it's to the detriment of the northeast so we are expecting after a brief break
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for some though heavy rain to return so do we expect to see additional flooding on Friday and
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how how much of the the ground do you think will be saturated so will we have a chance to recover
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from round one before Debbie comes in yeah obviously all we have all the rain that's coming
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down here for this evening and tonight it's going to saturate the ground out there and then here
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comes Debbie and just not much of a break here we're talking about a break tomorrow into Thursday
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then already by Thursday night that rain starting to move northward towards the northeast heading
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into Friday and that is a big question right now just how fast is that rain going to come down this
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is a tropical air mass so it's going to produce intense rainfall amounts over a very short period
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of time you can see especially the interior areas of the northeast anywhere from four eight inches
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from Maryland back through Pennsylvania up on into upstate New York and keep an eye out even the areas
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that have not been hit hard with rain maybe in the last day or two but uh northern New England
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remember Vermont's been hit hard over the last couple of weeks all of these folks will have to
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keep an eye out as Debbie comes northward with this intense rainfall expected with the storm
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all right we appreciate your analysis uh and if you if you're not aware Matt Benz worked for quite
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a bit in local television as well where most of us on the broadcast side come from uh so uh Matt
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you're a natural and you still got it my friend thank you very nice all right
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