Scattered Severe Storms to Continue Over the Central and Southern Plains this Weekend; Snow in the Sierra Nevada

Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms will persist over the central to southern High Plains this weekend with a severe weather and flash flooding threat. A late season storm will bring low elevation rain and high elevation snow to portions of California, Nevada and Oregon through the weekend. Winter Weather Advisories are in place for the Sierra for snow totals of 3-6", locally higher. Read More >

Rainfall Plot for several days for TS Lee.

The remnants of Tropical Storm Lee produced several days of rain over most of Wakefield's forecast area from the 5th to 9th of September. The heaviest rainfall was east of Interstate 95 with widespread 4 to 8 inch totals however amounts dropped off quickly near the coast. Heavy rates of rainfall on Wednesday and Thursday evenings produced flash flooding in some areas. On Thursday, twelve inches fell at Colonial Beach on the Potomac in Westmoreland County. Some roads were washed out in that area where a total of 20 inches fell during the week.