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Northeast Flooding Shatters Records, Blog Updates

Mar 30, 2010; 10:06 AM ET

Today is one of those days that I find myself updating previous blog entries and tweeting/Facebooking some interesting stuff (see J's Breaking Weather News" below or friend me on Facebook). First, I have added links to 5 confirmed reports of tornadoes in the NC/VA area to my report from Sunday night, along with some incredible video that you've got to see. I also added larger and slower version of the 4-Month Radar Loop blog that I posted yesterday.

UPDATE 8 AM 3/31: More Photos from our Facebook Fans:

The Pawtuxet River at Cranston is cresting over forecast, over 20 feet compared to their records below 15 feet... and will only be back down to record levels by Friday.

We have updated our news story. 11 river gauges are forecast by NOAA to exceed "major flood stage" during the next 48 hours (some are already there). The most impressive is the Pawtuxet River at Cranston which is expected to crest at 19 feet Wednesday morning. Flood stage is only 8 feet and the record was 14.5 feet in 1982, prior to this month! Other locations expected to break their records are: Charles River at Dover, the Sudbury River at Saxonville and the Yantic River at Yantic.

Today in the Northeast, the heavy rain continues, as it did yesterday. As of 11 AM, storm total amounts are 2-4 inches over a wide area with over 6 on Rhode Island according to the NWS Precip Site.

Daily records were broken at 27 stations yesterday - two of which were record rainy March days). Our news story about the storm says that Boston & Providence, Rhode Island have broken their wettest March records. Blog reader Bart writes: "As of yesterday, 62.17 inches of precipitation had fallen in the previous 365 days in Philadelphia - more than five feet. That broke the old 365-day record of 61.41 inches, for the period ending Oct. 1, 1933."

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