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In many areas in North Carolina, like Chimney Rock and Asheville, residents saw heavy rain. The highest reported rainfall was 29.5 inches in Busick Raws, Yancey County, North Carolina’s Gov. Roy ...
A wake low or a mesoscale low-pressure area forms behind the rain shield (a high pressure system under the rain canopy) of a mature squall line and is sometimes associated with a heat burst. [40] Squall lines often cause severe straight-line wind damage, and most non-tornadic wind damage is caused from squall lines. [41]
FILE - Heavy holiday traffic on I-495 with snow and rain covering most of the east coast on November 26, 2014 in Landover, MD. (Getty Images)
A level 2 of 4 risk for flooding rain is posted from Long Island, New York, north through Maine with more than 1.5 inches of rain expected for much of the East Coast and more isolated pockets of 2 ...
Satellite images of one of the first extratropical cyclones responsible for the flooding (unofficially named "Winter Storm Iras" by The Weather Channel).. The high-amplitude ridge off the West Coast that characterized the 2011–17 California drought, dubbed the "Ridiculously Resilient Ridge", was replaced by a persistent presence of anomalous troughs affected California.
A flash flood is a sudden, violent flood after a heavy rain, or occasionally after a dam break. Rainfall intensity and duration, topography, soil conditions, and ground cover contribute to flash flooding.
Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in Oman on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, killing at least 17 people as rescuers searched for survivors, authorities said Monday. In one incident ...
Between May 27 to June 7, numerous days of heavy rain led to extreme flooding across the Southwestern United States, which would later be classified as a “historic” flooding event by the National Weather Service. [163] [164] In the Amarillo metropolitan area, over 15 inches (380 mm) of rain fell. [163]