Delaware River Projected To Flood Wednesday

YARDLEY, PA —The Delaware River —which has experienced some flooding from storms over the past month —is projected to reach flood levels later this week.

The National Weather Service at Mount Holly said the Delaware River at Trenton is expected to hit "take action" flood levels sometime Wednesday, according to the Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service.

The weather service said the river is expected to enter "take action flood stage" levels at 17 feet around noon Wednesday before rising to 18.7 feet around noon Thursday.

Forecasters are predicting two to three inches of additional rain from a storm moving in for Tuesday and Wednesday. If the forecast holds, the area will see flooding, especially with the ground still saturated from the last few storms, officials said.

The National Weather Service of Philadelphia/Mount Holly has issued a flood watch for the entire region from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon.

Forecasters are saying that excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Area creeks and streams are running high and are expected to flood with more heavy rain.

In mid-December, the Delaware River rose to the "take action stage"and entered the roadway along North Delaware Avenue in Yardley, forcing police to shut the road.

The National Weather Service of Philadelphia/Mount Holly said that there's a "much more powerful storm system" that will impact the area beginning during the middle to latter part of Tuesday and lasting Tuesday night into Wednesday.

The storm is likely to be quite an impactful event with significant flooding possible, the weather service said, for both freshwater flooding due to heavy rains and coastal flooding due to very strong south/southeast winds late day Tuesday and Tuesday night.

Along the coast, winds could gust to over 60 mph. Gusts inland will likely be at least 40 to 50 mph.

This could lead to numerous power outages.

For a briefing on this storm please see:

https://www.weather.gov/media/phi/current_briefing.pdf

For more information on the significant river flooding threat, check out this link at the Mid-Atlantic River Forecast Center:
https://www.weather.gov/marfc/Flood_Outlook