Lee Drops Highest Rain Totals on Virginia

The remnant moisture of Tropical Storm Lee dumped torrential rainfall over nearly two dozen states over the past week. While other regions have seen greater problems due to flooded rivers, no other state experienced greater rainfall totals than Virginia. It's still raining up in Pennsylvania at the time of this post, so the order of these might change, but as it stands now, Colonial Beach received more rainfall than any other community. We'll fortunately have much drier weather this weekend into the first half of next week. -Zach

A week of heavy rain

The remnants of Tropical Storm Lee have kept frequent showers and storms in the area over the past few days. Some areas have received over 10" of rain just since Tuesday morning.

When you add this to the rain Irene brought the other weekend, area totals have exceeded 10" in many areas with a few isolated spots near 20" east of I-95.














Here is a map of total rainfall through Thursday morning:

Dense fog descends Thursday morning

After torrential downpours over the past two days, dense fog has descended upon all of central Virginia Thursday morning. Visibilities this morning are being reduced in places to a half-mile or worse. Please use extra caution commuting this morning, as visibility can suddenly plummet. Allow extra distance between you and surrounding vehicles, slow down, and use your low-beam headlights, even though we are past sunrise. Fog should begin to mix out by mid-morning.

Here are some of the pictures from this morning's dense fog around the Richmond metro area.
Dominion Cam in Downtown Richmond (pointed SW toward the James River):

WTVR CBS 6 Rooftop Cam (pointed east along West Broad Street toward the Science Museum):

Richmond Zoo Camera:

So how much rain have we received the last couple of days? Record rainfall for Richmond International Airport!

And here's a radar-estimated map of central Virginia rainfall the past two days:

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--Meteorologist Carrie Rose