Saturday, September 6, 2008

Hanna Quickly Exits

Showers have now tapered to isolated sprinkles across our area as the center of Hanna races into Delaware. Winds are from the northwest 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. Winds will diminish to 10 to 20 mph from 8-10 PM, then drop to 5 to 10 mph later tonight.

Most areas around Richmond and Petersburg received 2 to 4" of rain. Totals were much higher to the west of I-95, where areas received 5 to 7". The hardest hit were Buckingham, Prince Edward and Charlotte counties, where isolated areas exceeded 8"!

Here is a map of current stream and river flow. As expected, streams are flowing well above average along and west of I-95 (indicated by the blue dots). Some streams are overflowing, which are indicated by the black dots. Also notice the red dots to the southwest corner of the state. This area received almost no rain today, so streams are flowing well below normal.

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