A storm brought coastal flooding, beach erosion and wind gusts over 40 mph to the East Coast, prompting flash flood warnings and water rescues.

A storm system has swept through the US East Coast, bringing high winds, heavy rainfall, and tidal flooding to coastal regions. Virginia Beach and surrounding areas have experienced rough surf and wind gusts exceeding 40 miles per hour, with residents largely staying indoors.

Significant flooding has been reported in parts of South Carolina, particularly around Georgetown, where over six inches of rain has fallen and water rescues have occurred. The storm, influenced by a low pressure system and strong high pressure, continues to cause coastal flooding and beach erosion, with warnings in place for affected areas.

Storm sweeps through East Coast with flooding, high winds

Take a live look at Virginia Beach. This is courtesy of Leslie Hudson. And yeah, you can see the beach is pretty angry down here in this region as well, Melissa. Yeah, it's not an easy go of things. They have kind of worked through that beach to kind of navigate some of the ongoing tidal flooding concerns here. And so far, so good in Virginia Beach. People have been staying home as we've been checking in on them. And you can see just how many swells are coming in, even with a little bit of sunlight out there in the water. Part of the reason why we've been covering this storm so much is because of how it's interacting with some of the other weather patterns around the Northeast. There is a low pressure system that's been diving through the Great Lakes and over the Northeast. So that's going to all tie into this storm in the course of time. However, we also have the strong high. This high, by the way, is what brought the cool, dry air mass that was so crisp and bright for many of us across the Northeast. That October air is shifting its way out over Atlanta, Canada, but doesn't allow the storm to lift very quickly on the coast. It also forces a tighter change in pressure. That's what we call pressure gradient, which is going to drive those winds. And in this case, they're going to be pushed in towards the coastline. We already have those wind gusts of more than 30 to 40 miles per hour. Atlantic City, you've gusted to more than 40, as has Ocean City, Maryland, and into Virginia, coastal Virginia, you can see 46 miles per hour there. And we continue to watch the rain lift northward too. Alley was dealing with some bands of rain coming in. A lot of this rain will be confined pretty well to the coast, so we might not see it traverse as far into inter-Pennsylvania and some of our inter-interior northeastern areas, but we are still getting some of the rainfall where it is heaviest, working its way into South Jersey at this point in time and through the Delmarva. Along with that, you do have those strong winds and the rough surf. Farther south, this is where flooding has been a huge factor here due to some of the rain on top of coastal flooding. And around the Georgetown area, there is currently a flash flood warning in place. I did wanna highlight here what they've been dealing with, and let me take off some of the old ones. But basically, we've been dealing with flooding reports around the Georgetown area that have been fairly substantial, including some water rescues too, and notable flooding there in Georgetown region. So this is one of our big spots where we've gotten a lot of the storm reports coming in from this area. And they have indeed topped now more than six inches of rainfall there, as well as Andrews, South Carolina, which is interior a little bit more away from the coastline. You can see why the rainfall's a concern there in South Carolina. That continues through a lot of today, that low sitting and spinning as this whole storm system stretches out. So that second impulse, or that first impulse, I should say, moves up the coast. The second low continues to sit and spin, and that's what takes its time to move up the coastline here allowing for the winds all the while to be a factor. It's why we've been highlighting this risk for the tropical wind and rainstorm. It's on a one at the AccuWeather Real Impact Scale for hurricanes because of the amount of coastal flooding and beach erosion that it will do to the East Coast.

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