Monday Brings More Rain

First off, my apologies on my lack of posts this week. Between people visiting, birthdays happening, working like crazy and of course my all important fantasy baseball draft, I have been lacking with my blog. I love doing this blog and I need appreciate all of your support so keep it coming!

Now onto the story. The picture above tells the whole story. A lot of rain is coming again and this time it will cause widespread moderate to severe flooding again for our region as well as officially break our record for the rainiest March ever on record.

Here is how it breaks down: A low pressure system from the Ohio Valley transitions into a large coastal storm, very much like a noreaster would. The problem is, this storm follows the pattern of many of our other storms this year and becomes "cut off" from the jet steam. Essentially, this means that the storm will sit and spin to our south, tapping into a very strong low level jet steam and drag Atlantic moisture into Boston, bringing us another monster rain storm. Winds will pick up as well, Monday nights gusts could be over 45 mph, especially on the coast.

This is no joke. Expect 3-6 inches of rain to fall starting late tonight and lasting into Tuesday when scattered showers should take over for drenching rain. Monday looks to be a complete washout and there are serious concerns for flooding only two weeks removed from our 7 inch rain storm which caused some pretty significant flooding itself.

The NWS is warning people to take precautions and I would listen if I were one of the many people that had basements flood with the last storm. As I said before, that water had nowhere to go. These warnings don't just pertain to rivers and streams. Significant urban flooding is expected as well, as sewers and other draining devices have been overloaded this month.

I will have much more as the rain begins to fall, but for now, keep an eye on the sky and also beware of rising water. The storm looks to be out of our hair by Wednesday and I can guarantee that you will all like the forecast for this weekend. Do you like 80 degree temperatures?