A period of relatively quiet weather in much of the East this week will end dramatically late this weekend and early next week, as AccuWeather forecasters are expecting a significant storm to move up the coast and bring more heavy rain and gusty winds to the region. The storm will evolve from a system moving into the South to end the week, bringing flooding downpours and coastal flooding. After gathering steam from the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico early this weekend, the storm will rocket u
The new Tropical Storm Ophelia will bring challenging weather conditions in Mid-Atlantic states and Southeastern US this weekend. The tropical storm is expected to land in Eastern Carolina on Saturday. Read here.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Representatives Bobby Scott (D-Va.-03), John Sarbanes (D-Md.-03) and Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.-07) led fellow Chesapeake Bay-area lawmakers from both the Senate and House of Representatives in a recent letter urging U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to replenish the resilient farms initiative established administratively thanks to their efforts last year with available Inflation Reduction Act and other funds. The Chesapeake Bay States’ Partnership Initiative (C-SPI) provides additional financial and technical assistance to farmers to implement conservation practices in the Bay watershed region.
“As you distribute Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) funding provided in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to states for climate-smart agriculture, we encourage you to leverage the C-SPI framework to deli
punch left with it, so don t underestimate the ability of this to really be producing significant rainfall like we saw in coastal sections of south carolina, also for the outer banks area of north carolina as well. so we ve got kind of a variability as to who will see what, but still flood warnings and watches out along that chesapeake bay area. and you can imagine that there is going to be a rip current pretty much across much of the eastern sea board of the united states. but i think that as we go late in the day on saturday, and we start to see a lessening effect of all of this, but the early part of saturday still be aware that you may be in some of the flood prone areas and that will be problematic. there we go this coastal sections of north carolina, norfolk, also for hampton and western sections of virginia, also into west virginia, with some heavy downpours. here is that flood watch, the