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Flash Flood in USA on Tuesday, 10 July, 2012 at 03:27 (03:27 AM) UTC.
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Strong storms have brought heavy rains and flash flooding to the Triad and Charlotte regions while knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses. The News & Record of Greensboro reported Monday night ( http://bit.ly/OrD2cl) that the National Weather Service said 2.7 inches of rain had fallen in less than two hours at Piedmont Triad International Airport. The newspaper reported that Greensboro police had closed off some streets. The weather service said flash flooding had closed Interstate 40 westbound at Highway 68 in Greensboro. Forecasters warned motorists not to drive into flooded roadways. Some flights were also diverted from Piedmont Triad airport. As temperatures plunged to around 70 degrees Monday night, Greensboro and Guilford County were under a flash-flood warning until 1:45 a.m. EDT, the weather service said. At 10:45 p.m., Duke Energy was reporting 9,400 outages in the Carolinas, mostly in Guilford County, N.C., but also in Mecklenburg County, N.C. and Lancaster, S.C.. The Charlotte Observer was reporting downed trees in Mecklenburg and Union counties. The storms follow five days of record-setting heat in North Carolina. On Sunday, the Raleigh-Durham area set a record when temperatures reached 100 degrees or more for the sixth straight day. That marked the first such streak since the weather service began keeping records in 1944 and broke the record set in July of last year. The high of 105 tied the all-time record just set June 29 and tied again June 30 of this year Forecasters said a cold front will ease temperatures, with highs of mid-80s expected the rest of the week. The tradeoff is a forecast for severe storms, which could include strong lightning and damaging winds.
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