A extreme storm ripped by southeastern Massachusetts Saturday night time, toppling timber and taking down wires, as National Weather Service meteorologists on Sunday deliberate to take a look at the storm harm.
A major quantity of the harm was reported in Easton, the place a tree reportedly fell onto a home on Poquanticut Avenue. Numerous timber and wires have been down on different roads, together with a tree that fell on a car on Chestnut Street.
Many harm stories additionally got here in from Brockton and West Bridgewater. There had been a twister warning for southeastern Massachusetts Saturday night time.
“We are planning to survey storm damage in eastern CT (Chaplin to Killingly) and in southeast MA (Easton to West Bridgewater) later this morning,” the National Weather Service’s Boston workplace tweeted on Sunday.
“We need to coordinate with state and local emergency management before doing so, and will provide more info as it becomes available,” NWS Boston added.
Also on Saturday, one other spherical of torrential rain led to flooding within the Boston-area.
“In the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, police reported cars stuck in street flooding on Columbus Avenue at Center Street,” the National Weather Service storm report reads.
“Two cars were stuck in flooding on Melnea Cass Blvd, which was closed from Harrison Ave. to Hampden St.,” NWS wrote. “At 645 PM, a section of Storrow Dr. outbound at the Bay State Bridge was closed, per DCR.”
Boston got here in with 3.07 inches of rain on Saturday, setting a brand new day by day report for July 29, which was beforehand 1.81 inches of rain in 1901.
Saturday was the fifth wettest single day throughout the month of July in NWS Boston station historical past. The report wettest day in July is 6.04 inches set on July 9, 1921.
Meanwhile, NWS Boston on Sunday was warning beachgoers a few excessive threat of robust rip currents.
NWS Boston tweeted, “If heading to the beach today, be prepared for rough surf & strong rip currents, especially at south facing ocean beaches from #CapeCod to the Islands and the entire Rhode Island coastline, including Block Island.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”