Photos: Relentless rain floods areas across East Coast
A couple weeks of relentless wet weather has left portions of the eastern United States flooded.
Portions of central Pennsylvania received 2-5 inches of rain, spanning Thursday evening to Friday afternoon alone, which flooded streets and caused small streams to overflow their banks.
"The weather system in the Mississippi Valley has been nearly stationary for a week. This pumped deep tropical moisture all the way from the western Caribbean up through the eastern US," AccuWeather Meteorologist Jack Boston said.
Flooding was reported in east-central Alabama on Thursday afternoon, causing some roads to become impassable.
"Heavy showers and thunderstorms have repeated over the same locations day after day for the past week resulting in very heavy rainfall totals and flooding," Boston said.
Stretches of the Susquehanna, Juniata, Potomac, Elk, Kanawha, Shenandoah, French Broad, Allegheny, St. Johns, Santa Fe and Aucilla rivers have been on the rise this week.
"The hardest-hit areas have been from the spine of the Appalachians eastward, but it missed coastal areas including Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston through Friday," Boston said.
Heavy rain pressed eastward to Boston and Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday. While flash flooding was the most widespread concern, an isolated tornado caused damage well southwest of Boston.
Communities impacted by road closures and property damage due to the heavy rainfall and localized severe weather are able to start cleanup efforts this weekend.
Drier weather returned to the mid-Atlantic on Saturday. The Northeast will then be dominated by dry and hotter conditions for Sunday.
Flooding at the University of Lynchburg on Aug. 3, 2018. (Facebook photo/ Joni L. Organ)
