ALSO: These 25 towns got a month of rain in 1 night from drenching thunderstorms
Tropical Storm Debby continues to churn Wednesday morning on a track that is expected to dump more than 7 inches of rain on already waterlogged parts of New Jersey after Tuesday night’s fierce thunderstorms that left streets flooded.
The highest risk of heavy rain and flash flooding this week will be on Friday as what’s now Tropical Storm Debby approaches New Jersey as a post-tropical depression, the National Weather Service said.
Tropical Storm Debby remains on track to dump significant rain on New Jersey later this week as it treks up the East Coast. New Jersey is already saturated from fierce thunderstorms on Tuesday night, raising significant concerns of additional flooding.AccuWeather.com
A post-tropical system no longer has tropical characteristics, but can still pack heavy rain and strong winds.
As of 5 a.m. Wednesday, Debby was about 65 miles south-southeast of Charleston with maximum winds of 45 mph. The storm was crawling east at just 5 mph.
It’s expected to pick up speed and weaken to a tropical depression as it moves north-northeast across the Carolinas on Thursday and Friday, then toward the Northeast as a post-tropical depression on Friday and Saturday, the National Hurricane Center said.
That’s when it will merge with another front and begin to directly impact New Jersey with plenty of rain and flooding.
Tropical Storm Debby remains on track to dump significant rain on New Jersey later this week as it treks up the East Coast. New Jersey is already saturated from fierce thunderstorms on Tuesday night, raising significant concerns of additional flooding.AccuWeather.com
“From Maryland north through upstate New York and Vermont, 2 to 4 inches, with local amounts to 6 inches, are expected through Saturday morning,” the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday morning. “This will likely produce considerable flash and urban flooding as well as river flooding.”
Tropical Storm Debby remains on track to dump significant rain on New Jersey later this week as it treks up the East Coast. New Jersey is already saturated from fierce thunderstorms on Tuesday night, raising significant concerns of additional flooding.AccuWeather.com
The heavy rain from Debby will pile on already saturated parts of New Jersey from strong thunderstorms on Tuesday night. A few thousand homes and businesses remained without power as of Wednesday morning after peaking at more than 25,000 outages Tuesday night.
A part of Pennington in Mercer County received a whopping 7.76 inches of rain, according to the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network.
More than 6 inches of rain had fallen in Fairview, Burlington County, as of 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to a National Weather Service employee.
Dozens of other towns across New Jersey had picked up more than 2 inches of rain as of late Tuesday night, the weather service said.
Several towns and cities experienced considerable flooding, including, Hackensack, Englewood, Lodi, Long Branch and Brick.
NJ Transit train service on the Morris & Essex line was suspended for several hours Tuesday night due to downed trees on power lines Tuesday night. Service has resumed Wednesday morning with 30 minute delays.
Flooding on Route 17 north in Hasbrouck Heights near Route 46 closed down a portion of the highway, the state Department of Transportation said.
More than 100 flight have been cancelled already Wednesday at Newark Liberty, John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia airports, according to Flightaware.com. Only seven flights out of Philadelphia have been scrapped.
Although no severe weather is expected Wednesday, showers and scattered thunderstorms are possible on a mostly cloudy day with highs in mid-to-upper 70s, a few degrees below normal for early August, according to forecasters.
It’ll be a similar story for Wednesday night when temps fall into the 60s. Rain and potential storms are also in the forecast for Thursday when highs again will only be in the 70s.
Tropical Storm Debby remains on track to dump significant rain on New Jersey later this week as it treks up the East Coast. New Jersey is already saturated from fierce thunderstorms on Tuesday night, raising significant concerns of additional flooding.AccuWeather.com
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NJ Advance Media staff writer Len Melisurgo contributed to this report.
Jeff Goldman may be reached at jeff_goldman@njadvancemedia.com.