Right on the heels of Arthur, the first Atlantic tropical storm of 2020, skirting along the Eastern Seaboard on Monday, a strong non-tropical storm will exit the Midwest and head into the East, where it will stall for days to unleash repeated flooding downpours.Torrential rain caused widespread flash flooding around Chicago on Sunday as the storm deluged a large part of the Midwest and Great Lakes. Both Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports were doused by more than 3 inches of rain on Sunday alone.
Due in a large part to this storm, O’Hare received 8.20 inches of rain so far in May, more than two times the normal rainfall for the entire month.”By early Monday morning, 24-hour rainfall totals of 2-4 inches were widespread from Wisconsin and Illinois to western Michigan and Indiana,” said Meteorologist Mary Gilbert.While flooding was the most widespread impact on Sunday, a few severe thunderstorms were also embedded within the downpours. At least three brief tornadoes were reported by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Illinois on Sunday afternoon.
A large swath of the eastern United States will be at risk of similar threats of flooding rain and isolated severe thunderstorms, as the large area of low pressure crawls eastward this week.Heavy rain and thunderstorms focused over much of central and eastern Michigan, eastern Indiana, western Ohio and eastern Kentucky from Monday afternoon through much of Monday night.Many daily rainfall records were broken across the area on Monday.”In this type of setup, the heavy rain and thunderstorms form into broad, very slow-moving lines, which then ‘train’ over the same areas. Torrential rain can last for hours underneath these slow-moving lines,Meteorologist said.The sluggish-moving system will sink farther south toward the Tennessee Valley Tuesday through Thursday, where it will stall yet again.
“After Tropical Storm Arthur caused the storm to stall in the Midwest this past weekend, a strong area of high pressure shifting into the Great Lakes and Northeast will cause it to stall again over the Tennessee Valley this week,” said Meteorologist.This will focus the heavier rain farther south and east for the middle part of the week, with a bull’s-eye seemingly painted on the southern Appalachians.
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