Live updates: 14 million under flash flood alerts in Northeast U.S. • 10 inches of rain fell in NY’s Hudson Valley • West Point Military Academy recorded 6.96 inches in 3 hours — a 1-in-1,000 year rain event for that location
continued on Monday morning, as severe weather forced airlines to divert flights and cancel others.
FlightAware, a company that tracks air travel, showed Boston's Logan Airport with the 61 delayed flights and 13 cancellations, followed by Newark with 34 delayed flights and 19 cancellations.The National Weather Prediction Center"Flash flooding is ongoing already in this area and is likely to become more widespread and severe through the morning hours as the rain continues," the center wrote in its warning.
"These rates in themselves could be enough to overwhelm soils to result in runoff and flash flooding, but what makes this event more alarming is that they will be occurring atop pre-saturated grounds," the center added.Satellite imagery released Monday morning by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a large mass of clouds moving over the Northeast as the sun rose.There is a high risk of flash flooding for parts of Vermont along the New York state border on Monday.
The"region is sensitive to flash flooding due to recent instances of heavy rainfall," according to theHigh risk days are rare and account for 39% of flash flood-related fatalities and 83% of flash flood-related damages.
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