Bulletin: …FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING…
* WHAT…Flooding brought on by extreme rainfall continues to be
doable.
* WHERE…Portions of New Jersey, together with the next areas,
Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris,
Northwestern Burlington, Ocean, Somerset, Southeastern Burlington,
Sussex, Warren and Western Monmouth and Pennsylvania, together with
the next areas, Berks, Carbon, Delaware, Eastern Chester,
Eastern Montgomery, Lehigh, Lower Bucks, Monroe, Northampton,
Philadelphia, Upper Bucks, Western Chester and Western Montgomery.
* WHEN…Through Sunday night.
* IMPACTS…Excessive runoff might lead to flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and different low-lying and flood-prone places.
Creeks and streams are working excessive and should rise out of their
banks and will flood with extra heavy rain. Flooding can also
happen in poor drainage and concrete areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…
– A low stress system will carry rain, heavy at occasions, this
afternoon by way of tonight. Another 1 to 2 inches of rainfall
is forecast inside the Flood Watch space along with the
a number of rounds of rainfall we have already had over the previous
week. This is prone to carry a number of river gauges into flood
stage throughout the Passaic, Raritan, and Rancocas basins by
Sunday. Urban flooding can even be a menace across the
Philadelphia and Allentown metro areas because the heaviest rain
strikes by way of late right this moment into tonight.
–
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
You ought to monitor later forecasts and be alert for doable Flood
Warnings. Those dwelling in areas susceptible to flooding must be ready
to take motion ought to flooding develop.
&&
Info:
Type: Flood Watch
start_time_local: 2024-03-09T13:00:00-05:00
end_time_local: 2024-03-10T20:00:00-04:00
county_name:
state: PA
headline: Flood Watch from SAT 1:00 PM EST till SUN 8:00 PM EDT
county_fips:
class: Met
url:
urgency: Unknown
severity: Moderate
certainty: Unknown
geographicname: Upper Bucks County
state_name: Pennsylvania
