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National Weather Service: Flood Warning |
Short-term forecast
Issued by the National Weather Service at 11:40 am EDT on March 14, 2010
Light to occasionally moderate rainfall will continue across the central Virginia foothills and the western suburbs of Washington DC and the city of Baltimore. Through 2 PM...the heaviest rainfall will affect southern Fauquier...Rappahannock...Culpeper and Madison counties. Rainfall amounts will average one to two tenths of an inch an hour...with locally higher amounts up to half an inch. Across the western suburbs of Washington DC and Baltimore...precipitation will be more spotty in nature. Scattered showers will produce a quick tenth of an inch or less of rainfall.
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Forecast
As of 12:00 PM EDT on March 14, 2010
This Afternoon...Showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
Tonight...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Lows around 40. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Monday...Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs around 50. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
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Flood Warning
Issued by the National Weather Service at 11:17 am EDT on March 14, 2010
The Flood Warning continues for
the Potomac River near Little Falls.
* At 10:45 am Sunday the stage was 11.4 feet.
* Flood stage is 10.0 feet.
* Minor flooding is occurring and moderate flooding is forecast.
* Forecast... the river will continue rising to near 12.8 feet by
tomorrow morning. The river will fall below flood stage Tuesday
early afternoon.
At 12.0 feet, water will begin to inundate the c&o towpath, along the
Maryland side of the river. Downstream in the District of Columbia at
Wisconsin Avenue, the tidal Potomac River will near its 7 foot flood
stage at time of high tide..
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