Tropical Storm Elsa -- The Wrap Up Thread...
As expected, the track of Elsa really determined the type of storm you saw.
Widespread swath of 2-3" from Cape Ann & the Merrimack valley to the shoreline of Connecticut.
Isolated rain totals came in between 3-4".
Despite the fact Elsa was a fairly-quick mover, 4" in a relatively short time overwhelmed storm drains on *MANY* roadways.
Most of flooding was in Worcester, Middlesex, and Essex County... but there were spotty reports elsewhere.
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Wind was the other half of the storm, mainly felt across the Cape and Islands.
It was a slow ramp up to the worst of the wind, but coastal locations definitely felt it.
BTW... Elsa officially made landfall at 12:15p at Watch Hill, RI.
This breaks a 15-year stretch of no tropical storm *directly* hitting New England. Last storm to do so was Beryl in 2006.
Worcester sits at 6.49" of rain for July. That's the wettest start to July on record for ORH -- by about 1.5"!
Boston sits at 7.59" of rain for July. That's the wettest start to July on record for BOS.
Boston already at the 6th wettest July rain total on-record... with 21 days to go.
That means July 2021 has *already* been rainier than 96% of Boston's Julys since 1872.
Definitely a lock for top 5... maybe top 2.
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