Severe storms to leave the Northeast saturated just in time for Debby's impacts

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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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00:00to help us break down the forecast with also a touch of what's going on right now in the northeast

00:05separate from Debbie we're joined now by AccuWeather hurricane expert and also northeast forecast

00:10expert Matt and Ben so Matt thanks for making time for us here today uh you know separate from Debbie

00:16there's a trough in the northeast not quite deep enough to scoop Debbie up but it is causing some

00:21trouble out there right now and really the precursor of what's going to be some issues

00:25with Debbie later on this week so we're dealing with this trough digging through the northeast

00:29producing widespread not only heavy rain but severe weather concerns here for this evening

00:34stretching from Ohio all the way back to New Jersey parts of New York and of course a good

00:38chunk of Pennsylvania that is the main concern here for this evening the heavy rain threat but

00:42then on top of that we have flash flooding isolated tornadoes and the risk for severe

00:47thunderstorms with strong gusty winds but it's a fact that these storms are just training over

00:51the same spot they keep moving over these similar spots that they're producing heavy rainfall

00:55that's leading to the flooding threat here across portions of the northeast and especially

00:58through the central Appalachians that'll be the concern Jeff as we headed this evening and into

01:03tonight and Matt if we take radar we can zoom in on the New York metro a lot of pavement here about

01:0822 million people facing a flash flood threat in the immediate New York metro and right now we have

01:13some ongoing flash flooding on the north side and we have additional heavy rain coming in from north

01:18central New Jersey so the concern Matt is pretty significant in these areas that have lots of

01:23pavement and accelerated runoff so how do you expect the evening to play out here in New York

01:28and even parts of the Philadelphia metro yeah a couple rounds moving through here Jeff so you

01:32have one round moving through now you look towards central Pennsylvania there's another round of

01:36storms and then the third round back into the western part of Pennsylvania all these moving

01:40from west to east inundating similar areas that have been hit hard already so obviously all the

01:45rain coming down at once not a good thing because like you mentioned so many so much the area is

01:50paved the water has to go somewhere and unfortunately it just piles up in a lot of spots

01:54so a couple rounds of heavy rainfall into tonight is going to exasperate the flooding concerns here

01:59in the northeast particularly the major metro areas and then if we jump ahead to the future of

02:04Debbie kind of finally by Friday we expect Debbie to begin to move and that'll be a help to the

02:09southeast but it's to the detriment of the northeast so we are expecting after a brief break

02:15for some though heavy rain to return so do we expect to see additional flooding on Friday and

02:21how how much of the the ground do you think will be saturated so will we have a chance to recover

02:26from round one before Debbie comes in yeah obviously all we have all the rain that's coming

02:30down here for this evening and tonight it's going to saturate the ground out there and then here

02:34comes Debbie and just not much of a break here we're talking about a break tomorrow into Thursday

02:38then already by Thursday night that rain starting to move northward towards the northeast heading

02:43into Friday and that is a big question right now just how fast is that rain going to come down this

02:47is a tropical air mass so it's going to produce intense rainfall amounts over a very short period

02:52of time you can see especially the interior areas of the northeast anywhere from four eight inches

02:57from Maryland back through Pennsylvania up on into upstate New York and keep an eye out even the areas

03:01that have not been hit hard with rain maybe in the last day or two but uh northern New England

03:06remember Vermont's been hit hard over the last couple of weeks all of these folks will have to

03:11keep an eye out as Debbie comes northward with this intense rainfall expected with the storm

03:16all right we appreciate your analysis uh and if you if you're not aware Matt Benz worked for quite

03:21a bit in local television as well where most of us on the broadcast side come from uh so uh Matt

03:26you're a natural and you still got it my friend thank you very nice all right

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