Remains Of Isaac Finally Arrive; Flash Flood Warnings In Effect For Portions Of Garden State

Depending upon where you are on this Tuesday afternoon, there is either a lot of rain, very little, or none to this point. However, the effects of what was Hurricane Isaac are now moving into the Garden State. Over the past several days, conditions have been dark and menacing around Central Jersey, but there hasn’t been a lot of rain until now. Northwestern Middlesex County had only seen about three tenths of an inch from Sunday until now.

However, if you travel to the south and west of South Plainfield, Dunellen, Middlesex, and Piscataway, you find that there is plenty of rain. Shower and thunderstorm activity is lighting up the radar across Ocean County where a Flash Flood Warning is in effect. There was also a Tornado Warning issued earlier for the extreme southern part of the county. More Flash Flood Warnings are in effect in Monmouth, Mercer, and Burlington counties.

Meanwhile in Middlesex County, a Flood Advisory has been issued as a batch of slow moving showers and thunderstorms pushed through the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania into Morris County, New Jersey. Moving at 15 miles per hour, this batch of rain could dump up to an inch of rain in just a short amount of time. Some areas could see up to 2 inches. Yesterday, forecasts indicated anywhere from 2 to 4 inches were possible on Tuesday and Wednesday as Isaac combines with a frontal boundary to produce periodic downpours.