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Computer was down Yesterday due to technical issues, however I did manage to write a word document post to add later.. so as of Wednesday, July 14th, this is what I had...

We’ve had a rainy Wednesday so far, a Flash Flood Warning in effect until 4:30pm for Providence County and in Attleboro MA, and a Flash Flood Watch is in effect until 6pm for the same area. By taking a look at the radar, the storm tracker has picked up showers moving into the area. And for awhile now those showers have appeared to be somewhat stationary, yet moving very slightly towards Southern RI. The heavier rain is expected to hit the Southern RI area over the next hour or so. There have also been some “yellow colors” showing up on the radar, but there have been no signs of thunder. That simply means that there are torrential downpours occurring in those areas, not necessarily a thunderstorm. In fact, there has been no indication that a thunderstorm will occur within any of the flash flood areas for this evening, just a lot of heavy rain. Some of the rainfall rates have been estimated to be falling at 1.90in/hr, that’s almost 2 inches of rain per hour! In Smithfield (my hometown), 3.6 in. of rain has been recorded by about 4:45 pm this afternoon! This is more than the whole state of RI usually sees in the whole month of July! You can see just how intense these rainstorms have been over the past 24 hours.

Temperature currently in Providence is at 72°. The winds indicate a warm front that passed through our area. The wind direction in Northern RI is recorded as a NW wind, and as you move into Southern RI, the wind shifts to a South, to South Easterly wind in some areas. This is a textbook example of a Warm front and it just happens to be shown even in the small state of RI.

Over the next few days Temperatures will indeed warm up a little. On Thursday, some clouds early in the morning then we’ll see some sun as the day moves forward, the high for that day expected to be about 84°. On Friday, temperatures will are expected to be in the upper 80’s and eventually hit 90 by Saturday. Sunday is looking the same in terms of the 90 degree temperatures. Will there be another heat wave for July? That might just be so! ….More updated information will come from the Weather Center Tomorrow afternoon.