420 first-hand accounts of flood events in Connecticut, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A frontal system over the area on August 18th allowed for the development of rain early in the morning. As the day progressed, mesoscale features including multiple boundary interactions and a mesolow allowed thunderstorms to continue to intensify with persistent back-building…
Read the full account →A frontal system over the area on August 18th allowed for the development of rain early in the morning. As the day progressed, mesoscale features including multiple boundary interactions and a mesolow allowed thunderstorms to continue to intensify with persistent back-building…
Read the full account →A frontal system over the area on August 18th allowed for the development of rain early in the morning. As the day progressed, mesoscale features including multiple boundary interactions and a mesolow allowed thunderstorms to continue to intensify with persistent back-building…
Read the full account →A frontal system over the area on August 18th allowed for the development of rain early in the morning. As the day progressed, mesoscale features including multiple boundary interactions and a mesolow allowed thunderstorms to continue to intensify with persistent back-building…
Read the full account →A frontal system over the area on August 18th allowed for the development of rain early in the morning. As the day progressed, mesoscale features including multiple boundary interactions and a mesolow allowed thunderstorms to continue to intensify with persistent back-building…
Read the full account →A frontal system over the area on August 18th allowed for the development of rain early in the morning. As the day progressed, mesoscale features including multiple boundary interactions and a mesolow allowed thunderstorms to continue to intensify with persistent back-building…
Read the full account →A frontal system over the area on August 18th allowed for the development of rain early in the morning. As the day progressed, mesoscale features including multiple boundary interactions and a mesolow allowed thunderstorms to continue to intensify with persistent back-building…
Read the full account →A frontal system over the area on August 18th allowed for the development of rain early in the morning. As the day progressed, mesoscale features including multiple boundary interactions and a mesolow allowed thunderstorms to continue to intensify with persistent back-building…
Read the full account →A frontal system over the area on August 18th allowed for the development of rain early in the morning. As the day progressed, mesoscale features including multiple boundary interactions and a mesolow allowed thunderstorms to continue to intensify with persistent back-building…
Read the full account →A frontal system over the area on August 18th allowed for the development of rain early in the morning. As the day progressed, mesoscale features including multiple boundary interactions and a mesolow allowed thunderstorms to continue to intensify with persistent back-building…
Read the full account →A frontal system over the area on August 18th allowed for the development of rain early in the morning. As the day progressed, mesoscale features including multiple boundary interactions and a mesolow allowed thunderstorms to continue to intensify with persistent back-building…
Read the full account →A frontal system over the area on August 18th allowed for the development of rain early in the morning. As the day progressed, mesoscale features including multiple boundary interactions and a mesolow allowed thunderstorms to continue to intensify with persistent back-building…
Read the full account →A frontal system over the area on August 18th allowed for the development of rain early in the morning. As the day progressed, mesoscale features including multiple boundary interactions and a mesolow allowed thunderstorms to continue to intensify with persistent back-building…
Read the full account →A frontal system over the area on August 18th allowed for the development of rain early in the morning. As the day progressed, mesoscale features including multiple boundary interactions and a mesolow allowed thunderstorms to continue to intensify with persistent back-building…
Read the full account →A frontal system over the area on August 18th allowed for the development of rain early in the morning. As the day progressed, mesoscale features including multiple boundary interactions and a mesolow allowed thunderstorms to continue to intensify with persistent back-building…
Read the full account →A coastal low pressure system led to prolonged periods of heavy rainfall in northwest Connecticut on August 18, 2024. Rainfall totals were greatest in southern Litchfield County where total accumulations ranged from 1.75 to 8.80.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm and then Hurricane Kyle moved east of Massachusetts on its trek towards Maine and Nova Scotia. The effects of Kyle were minimal on Southern New England with heavy rainfall and high surf the only concerns.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front moved across Southern New England and stalled just south of the area. This front was instrumental in bringing tropical moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee into New England.
Read the full account →A cold front moved across southern New England, igniting showers and thunderstorms in the warm, unstable airmass ahead of the front. With plenty of instability and steep mid level lapse rates, some of these storms became severe, producing large hail and damaging winds.
Read the full account →Several areas of low pressure traveled along a stationary front stalled across Southern New England producing showers and a few thunderstorms. In addition, strong southerly flow brought in a very moist airmass with precipitable water values above two inches.
Read the full account →An area of low pressure lifting through the eastern Mid-Atlantic and deepening through southeast New England into the Gulf of Maine resulted in an area of heavy rains with amounts ranging 2 to 5 inches across coastal and interior New England on top of melting snows.
Read the full account →The remnants of tropical storm Allison joined forces with a slow moving cold front from the west, to produce torrential rainfall over much of Litchfield County on June 17.
Read the full account →The season's first Bermuda high became established off the Atlantic coast from March 17 through 19. Across northwest Connecticut, temperatures climbed well above the freezing mark, allowing the unusually deep winter snow pack to begin to melt in earnest.
Read the full account →Low pressure tracking toward southern New England tapped into a plume of tropical moisture and produced torrential rainfall over northeast Connecticut and especially across adjacent portions of central Massachusetts in the matter of a few hours.
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