Flooding that began overnight in Dallas-Fort Worth continues with rescue efforts underway. Several states are under flood threat, while Colorado’s Pike peak gets first snow of the season. See updates on activity in the Atlantic, today’s weather alerts, and news.
Today’s weather alerts
Here are the latest weather alerts from the National Weather Service (NWS) for Monday.
Flash flood warning: Dallas-Fort Worth area, Texas; northern and east-central New Jersey.
Flood warning: Dallas-Fort Worth area and southern Texas; eastern New Mexico; southeastern Arizona; eastern Maryland.
Flood watch: southern Oklahoma; central, northeastern and eastern Texas; southern Arkansas; northern and central Louisiana; west-central and western Mississippi; northern, central, and western New Mexico.
Red flag alert: southeastern Washington, northeastern Oregon, northern and central Idaho.
Excessive heat watch: southern California.
Flooding threat: Dallas-Fort Worth flooding prompts rescues
The Dallas-Fort Worth area was pounded with three months’ worth of rain overnight, with the rainfall rate at over five inches per hour at one point, ABC reported. On the east side, nearly ten inches have been recorded–and if rainfall exceeds 10.33 inches, it will be the wettest August on record, NBC reported.
Window-high water submerged cars on Interstate 30 and Interstate 45, with Dallas police and emergency responders rescuing drivers. Dallas police said it was responding to several high water calls in the city. Some drivers were walking through water up to their shoulders while escaping to safety, NBC-DFW reported.
Flooding threat in several states for Monday
Thunderstorms stretch along the southern quarter of the Southwest, southern Plains, through the south, southeast, and along the Atlantic into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Several states are under threats of flooding on Monday (see alerts above).
A large area of heavy rain in the South stretches over the eastern half of Texas into parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Heavy rain could also bring flooding to parts of Arizona and New Mexico in the Southwest, as well as Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey in the mid-Atlantic. Islands
Colorado’s Pike peak gets first snow of the season
With still plenty of summer to go, winter has made an early and brief appearance atop Colorado’s 14,000, 115-foot Pikes Peak, which fell to 40 degrees at noon on Sunday. The mountain got a brief dusting, but the snow was deep enough at the top to leave footprints. Sadly, it melted away in a few hours. Snowpack accumulation for the season typically begins the first week of October, 9 News reported, with the average first snow on October 18 in Denver.
Activity in the Atlantic
Forecasters are watching activity in the Atlantic for potential tropical development that could eventually make its way to the US. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is watching a tropical wave in the Atlantic that’s currently a few hundred miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands. Labeled “Disturbance 1”, the NHC is currently giving the system a 20% chance of cyclone development over the next five days as it moves westward to West-northward across the Atlantic.
