River Forecasts News Today

Gray muck is flowing into the Cape Fear River from the site of a dam breach at a Wilmington power plant where an old coal ash dump had been covered over by...

  The winds and rain ease this afternoon behind the front as it slowly exits the area. The rain eases further tonight as a weak ridge of high pressure moves across but another approaching front brings in more rain in the early morning hours again. High temperatures today near 50, tonight’s lows near 45.    We currently have a Coastal Flood Advisory valid from 9am thru 4pm today which is a result of the King Tides.  Though they peaked yesterday, and today’s forecasted level...

As far as new orleans goes, youll probably see the strongest gusts in the next two or three hours and then the winds will die down. again, scattered power outages in areas with trees and that will be the main issue. alex, as we go throughout the rest of the storm, it will be monitoring who gets the heavy rain, how much rain they get, and then well talk about those river forecasts. right now central flooding is predicted in central louisiana, in the same spot where three years ago they had, quote...

Moves in across parts of the appalachians, monday, same story. tuesday, by the time were done with this, well see an additional likely 20 to 25 inches of rain in some spots. now, weve seen all kinds of damaging pictures that have come in over the last eight, 12 hours from the storm. want to watch what were watching with the heavy flooding ongoing. were going to see the rain across the appalachians here sunday and monday. all of that rain has to drain down through the rivers. these are flood fore...

Historic strength as it heads directly for the northeast. weve got all of our reporters standing by throughout the danger zones with full reports but first, our meteorologist bill karins, live in lower manhattan, bracing for the storm surge tonight. bill, youre down there near battery city and obviously youre looking at tide coming in i guess around 8:30 tonight, is the really first test of just how bad this is going to be? >> yeah. this is slightly scary since this is what it looks like at the ...