With streams rising and more waterfall downpours possible, the National Weather Service has a flood watch in effect until 8 p.m. Monday.
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Late Monday morning, the Frankford Creek had reached moderate flood stage, and the Tacony, Pennypack, and other streams are likely to slosh over “at some point,” said Lee Robertson, meteorologist at the weather service office in Mount Holly.
The rains have been episodic and capricious, as they are wont to behave in July, but “where it’s raining, it’s really, really raining,” he said.
Parts of lower Bucks County and Camden County have experienced rains of 2 inches within an hour, he said.
Showers are forecast to persist Monday afternoon, and the entire region remains under a flood watch until 8 p.m.
The levels of moisture in the atmosphere remain dangerously high, but severe storms were unlikely, the weather service said.
That’s because the atmosphere isn’t as unstable it was Sunday night, “due to much of the air above the region being ‘worked over’ by previous storms.
No, the Philly region’s drought isn’t over
The rains have come just as the vegetation was showing those hay-brownish tints and taking on that I-need-a-drink look.
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“My grass has been happy the past few days,” said Robertson, but he added that it’s going to “take a while” that make up the accumulated rain deficits.
Even with Sunday’s generous soakings — 1.15 inches officially at Philadelphia International Airport — the city’s year-to-date rains have been only about 75% of normal.
All of New Jersey and Chester County remain under state-declared drought “warnings.”
More showers are possible every day this week, and no extreme heat is in the forecasts, and night not even hit 90.
That’s should be a relief. That three-day stretch ending with that torrid 250th birthday party on July 4 marked the first time in records dating to 1873 that the temperature had reached 101 or higher three consecutive days and only the third time it had hit 100 three days straight.
it may be hard to remember, but on Feb. 8 it got down to 8 degrees at the airport, proving that Philly truly is a four-season resort.
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