madison, 7.3 inches. the rain totals themselves, how fast the rain is coming down. rainfall rates of two inches per hour on grounds that are already completely saturated. we showed you that. it was 36 hours. take a look this morning. oklahoma, arkansas, southern portions of missouri looking for more rain in the area. what i want you to watch, though, is the difference. this is the stationary front. the southern portion. keep your eye on the area that is blue. it s the cold front that is going to kick through faster. the northeast, the system will move quickly through the overnight hours. that s good news. saturday no longer looking for rain. we have to get through the heavy rainfall, first. it stays stationary here. there you go in the northeast. heavy rain. we could see heavy rainfall rates. two to four inches possible. the back end of this, one to two inches in d.c. and new york. staying as we head into the weekend. with that, more flooding, obviously. there s no room for this rain t
indira petersons is watching the flooding. that s devastating. truly devastating, unfortunately, almost identical pictures today that we saw yesterday. we actually pulled up yesterday s radar. we reported anywhere from seven to nine inches of rain yesterday. now, let s look at the current radar. almost an identical picture. we re still talking about rainfall rates, about two inches an hour. we see a band, kansas and missouri. you have that ground that s saturated. so any additional rain is still saturating. look at waynesville. let s talk about what we re expecting the next several days. you can see where the biggest chance for more severe thunderstorms today are going to be oklahoma and kansas. so kind of the same region, as we stretch into tomorrow, we re still seeing the training thunderstorms in the same region. in fact, the severe weather will stretch to illinois tomorrow.
kansas pounded by severe storms yesterday. pretty amazing pictures there. let s go ahead and bring in meteorologist ingrid petersons, who are monitoring all of today s weather. i know, indra, you are kind of a self-described weather nerd. i know you would like to be out there witnessing that in person, but it s also very dangerous. weather geek, that is definitely me. we re talking about rainfall rates over 2 inches an hour. about 7 inches on sunday morning in kansas and this morning in missouri, that system moved just a little farther to the east and they dealt with heavy rainfall rates, about 7 inches of rain until about 6:00 in the morning, starting at midnight. an unbelievable a lmount of rai. they had flash flood mrng emergencies. and these systems are training, meaning storm after storm over the same place, day after day. and unfortunately, as we go
the numb bier of calls they ve been getting ove the last hour or so. i can t imagine being stuck in traffic. it must have been terrified for a lot of people. so by the time we get to tomorrow, we ll have a much better idea and extent of the damage. this is the same line of storms we ve been watching from 6:00 local time. they started popping up around that time. a lot of folks were saying there s nothing on the radar. it can t be a big deal. and then that explosion of severe thunderstorms that led to an outbreak. you see the orange and the yellow. those rainfall rates, around 3-5 inches of these storms tracking
welcome back to morning joe. it s 7:35 here on the east coast. if you re just waking up, we re following the path of hurricane sandy. let s go right upstairs to bill karins for the latest. hey, bill. good morning. we re starting to watch the worst of the weather now moving further inland. for the first time, washington, d.c., and the baltimore areas are starting to pick up really heavy rainfall rates. that s going to continue for a couple hours. your biggest concerns, i believe, are around d.c., baltimore and delmarva region. you could get up to ten inches of rain. flash flooding an issue throughout the day today. the leaves falling, the drains are going to clog. that s your biggest concern. you see those bright yellows and reds from baltimore to d.c. through the heart of maryland and eastern virginia. that rainfall is going to stay with you through much of the storm. look at the projected totals. the reds, the darker shades of