Flooding risk returns to the Northeast

Portions of the Northeast that were just struck by flooding earlier this week are about to get even more rain from Friday night to Saturday morning.

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00:00 The storm has to pull out of the northeast and it's going to do so with some significant impacts.

00:04 For more on that we're going to turn to Chief Meteorologist John Porter who has a lot more on

00:09 what's going on. And John for the Big East Coast cities if you were hoping for snow it's a swing

00:13 and miss this time. Yeah it's out on strikes on this one Melissa and if it sounds like a

00:18 broken record that we're talking about the risk again for major flooding along the I-95 corridor

00:24 you're right but please don't let your guard down in here as heavy rain once again enters the I-95

00:30 corridor a renewed risk for major flooding the ground is saturated waterways are already running

00:35 high this is going to be a very serious problem download the AccuWeather app turn on push

00:39 notifications so you could stay informed as this heavy rain tonight translates east by 9 a 9 p.m.

00:46 New York City down to Philadelphia and Washington D.C. and then eastbound at a Boston, Connecticut,

00:51 Rhode Island hard hit from the storm earlier this week again major flood concerns in these areas

00:57 once again with the risk for rapidly rising water and then it's the cold air on the backside of the

01:02 system that is going to start pouring in across portions of the northeast on these gusty winds

01:08 and look at these wind gusts 40 to 60 miles per hour highest gust 60 to 70 maybe right along the

01:13 immediate coastline so trees and power lines are coming down a concern again with power outages

01:20 and then we want to also hit on in the wake of this storm as that cold air surges across the

01:26 relatively mild unfrozen waters of the Great Lakes its lake effects snow and I want to hone in

01:32 a serious situation in the Buffalo area with an intense snow band it may be very narrow

01:39 only a couple miles wide but producing snow bands a snow intensity of one to three inches per hour

01:48 that can produce some life-threatening traveling conditions that's a big concern because we have

01:52 that big football game in Orchard Park on Sunday decision big decisions that officials are going

01:57 to need to make there and they're looking to do that in the next couple of hours. AccuWeather

02:02 chief meteorologist John Porter thank you again for joining us again as you mentioned Buffalo

02:07 looking to make that decision as we go into tomorrow afternoon.