Rain to soak mid-Atlantic US into Tuesday night

By Faith Eherts , AccuWeather meteorologist

By Alex Sosnowski , AccuWeather senior meteorologist

December 6,2016, 8:15:05PM,EST

 

 The storm system that drenched the south-central U.S. since this past weekend will soak the mid-Atlantic states into Tuesday night.

After several days of slow movement along the Gulf coast, the storm responsible for the rain has turned northward.

"As this system moves northward Tuesday, it will continue to feed off an abundance of Gulf moisture and a deepened jet stream," said AccuWeather Meteorologist Maximilian Vido.
Into Tuesday evening, the heaviest rain will fall from parts of Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio to parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey.
Downpours can lead to an extended travel time for the evening commute. Airline delays are possible due to a low cloud ceiling including the hubs of Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia.
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The risk of severe thunderstorms has diminished. However, parts of the central and southern Florida Peninsula can be hit with locally heavy, gusty thunderstorms.
Residents and visitors in the region should keep an eye out for rapidly changing weather conditions and move indoors as storms approach.
The intensity of the rain will diminish from the upper mid-Atlantic coast to southern New England. Most areas from New York City and Boston will have showery conditions that can include a couple of downpours during Tuesday night.
Over part of the interior mid-Atlantic, the air has been just cold enough to allow a pocket of rain, sleet and wet snow to develop. This wintry precipitation area will expand across parts of central and northern Pennsylvania to upstate New York and central and northern New England Tuesday night.