Another stormy stretch is underway in the Northeast, renewing flooding and storm damage concerns for a region that’s endured several bouts in recent weeks.
The latest unsettled stretch began Sunday, bringing repeated rounds of rain and storms with little reprieve between them.
Powerful storms battered the Northeast Wednesday night and were still unloading heavy rain around Philadelphia early Thursday. A flash flood warning covering more than 4.4 million people across the Philadelphia area is in effect until 5:30 a.m. Thursday.
A heat dome is partially responsible: It’s steering the jet stream — the river of air storms flow through — into the region as it bakes areas farther south with record-challenging heat.
Wednesday brought damaging wind gusts up to 70 mph across southeastern Pennsylvania into New York, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. More than 100,000 customers were without power across the region early Thursday morning, according to Poweroutage.us, as winds toppled trees and power lines across the region.
