The town of St. Johnsbury experienced its wettest day on record amid what is considered a thousand-year rain event.
A road is closed in St. Johnsbury, Vt., after the region was hit by flooding Tuesday morning. Heavy rain washed out some roads and led to about two dozen rescues in northern Vermont. Thunderstorms dumped two months’ worth of rain in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont on Tuesday morning, with 8 inches coming down in just six hours. A dire flash-flood emergency was issued for the town of St. Johnsbury, about 60 miles east of Burlington, as roadways turned into raging rivers.
The flooding was largely a surprise, with forecasts only calling for widely scattered showers and thunderstorms. Any flood risk wasn’t anticipated to come until Wednesday. In some such instances, thunderstorms can become “terrain-locked,” or hover over a single mountain or mountain range as air is forced uphill, enhancing a storm. That wasn’t a factor here.“I don’t think the terrain actually had much influence just because the low-level wind fields were quite light,” said Pete Banacos, the science and operations officer at the Weather Service in Burlington.While the storm dumped a total of 8.04 inches on St. Johnsbury before dissipating, 0.
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