I was up in Haverhill MA yesterday with some friends, a friend drove up and on the way home I was checking the progress of the great big red, yellow, and a little purple blob moving up from the south.
When we left it was over southwest Connecticut, and all the way home for over 2 hours it was over the Gold coast.
We dodged showers on the way home, through heavy rain and drizzle. When I was driving home from Enfield I was watching the radar… was still over southwest Connecticut! Then slowly it drifted over me and sat here for hours pouring.
Now I have lived here for over 30 years, you all know that I have wetlands behind my house and over the years I have seen it flooded. But it was over days of rain, not just 2 hours of rain! I have been through hurricanes and tropical storms that dumped tons of rain. But those were like over six or seven hours not 2.
And now I see all about flooding in the southwester part of the state.
As I write this at 2 AM, there is thunder to the southeast of me. Long Island is getting hammered and the blob is moving northeast, the mass of the rain looks like will be to the east of me but we will get some of the yellows and green… no reds through!
Flash flooding emergency in Connecticut prompts water rescues, evacuations
By Caroll Alvorado and Robert Shackelford, CNN
August 19, 2024Water rescues were underway Sunday after heavy rainfall caused a flash flood emergency in the Connecticut counties of New Haven and Fairfield, according to the National Weather Service.
“Widespread flooding and water rescues” were ongoing Sunday, the weather service warned. The emergency advisory, which has since been downgraded to a flood warning, included the cities of Waterbury, Danbury and the town of Fairfield.
David Stark of the National Weather Service in New York told CNN Weather there had been 6-10 inches of rainfall across southwestern Connecticut in a span of about six to nine hours Sunday, the bulk falling in the afternoon. Monroe, Connecticut, received 9.98 inches of rain, a one in 200-year event for the city.
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Water rescues were underway Sunday after heavy rainfall caused a flash flood emergency in the Connecticut counties of New Haven and Fairfield, according to the National Weather Service.
“Widespread flooding and water rescues” were ongoing Sunday, the weather service warned. The emergency advisory, which has since been downgraded to a flood warning, included the cities of Waterbury, Danbury and the town of Fairfield.
David Stark of the National Weather Service in New York told CNN Weather there had been 6-10 inches of rainfall across southwestern Connecticut in a span of about six to nine hours Sunday, the bulk falling in the afternoon. Monroe, Connecticut, received 9.98 inches of rain, a one in 200-year event for the city.
As I write this at 2 AM, there is thunder to the southeast of me. Long Island is getting hammered and the blob is moving northeast, the mass of the rain looks like will be to the east of me but we will get some of the yellows and green… no reds through!
We had about 3 - 4 inches of rain.
Yesterday in 1955...
Hurricane Diane came a week later and dealt a massive punch to New England. Rainfall totals from Diane ranged up to nearly 20 inches over a two day period. The headwaters of the Farmington River in Connecticut recorded 18 inches in a 24-hour period. Both of these accumulations exceeded records for New England. The same is true of much of the flooding that resulted from these massive rainfall amounts.
Deja Vu all over again!
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