Up to 4 inches of rain are possible as storms draws in moisture from the warm Atlantic.
A cyclist in a rain poncho pedals along Arch Street on a rainy morning earlier this month. It hasn't rained around here since March 9, and that's about to change.for the entire region for the first weekend of spring for soaking downpours that may threaten a 122-year-old record for March rains.
“Our main concern is across the coastal plain,” said Joe DeSilva, meteorologist with the weather service’s Mount Holly office. That would include Philly, Delaware, and South Jersey. At the Shore, winds could gust to 45 mph. The record for precipitation for any March day in Philadelphia is 2.79 inches, set in 1912. The record for a March 23 is 1.36 inches, set in 2005.The storm, forecast to ripen off the Carolina coast, will be feeding off two generous moisture supplies, said Dave Dombek, senior meteorologist with AccuWeather Inc.
Plus, with its onshore winds, on Saturday the coastal storm will be importing moisture from the Atlantic, where sea-surface temperatures also are substantially above normal. “There’s some really juicy air, and almost borderline tropical air offshore,” said Dombek.It’s possible that some streams could slosh over, and urban street flooding is very likely, the weather service says.
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