The Historic Connecticut Flood of June 4-7, 1982

It's the 33rd anniversary of a historic flood in Connecticut. Between the days of June 4 - 7, 1982, a low pressure stalled off the New England coast, drenching coastal Connecticut with rains up to 16 inches! It still stands as the wettest storm in southern Connecticut's recorded history. 

The National Weather Service released this graphic below with stats from the storm. The most rain fell on June 5th, when nearly 10 inches flooded the area. The floods cost upwards of 230 million dollars! 

Below the graphic is a video with a series of news reports from the New Haven, Connecticut area during and after the storm. 

Although I wasn't alive, I do remember my dad talking about a storm around this time, flooding City Hall in Milford, Connecticut. City Hall is right on the Wepawaug river. My dad, who was a police officer at the time, said that old paper records kept in the basement of town hall were ironically floating down River Street. Below is a photo of Milford's city hall along the Wepawaug river. 

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Connecticut Flooding! June 2013

I haven't updated this blog in a while (mostly because I was working on my Master's thesis!) and the weather has been pretty quite.  Most of April was extremely dry and below average temperature wise.  In fact Connecticut went into a moderate drought because of the long stretch of dry weather in April.  Now the first week in June and all we've had is rain, rain and more rain!  In fact many areas have already seen 4-6 inches of rain this week and it's not even over yet!  Thursday, June 13 into Friday, June 14th will feature more heavy rain possibly up to 5 more inches of rain!  The NWS (National Weather Service) is predicting 4.25 inches of rain for New Haven, CT.  If this happens many areas in CT will have gotten 10-12 inches of rain in one week!  Thats a foot of rain in one week! Almost unheard of here in CT unless a tropical system goes through, which Tropical Storm Andrea (the remnants) did go through last Friday! Below is the NWS total rainfall prediction for tomorrow and Friday!

More Hurricane Sandy Damage

Below are photos from the CT shore where storm surge carried a shed into a 3 way intersection (2nd photo). The first and third pictures show water still flooding streets from the earlier storm surge!

Hurricane Sandy: Evacuate along the shore!

New estimates call for a storm surge of 8-10 feet in Long Island Sound! This would be twice as bad as Tropical Storm Irene, which did horrible damage! I highly recommend anyone who lives on the water should evacuate, this storm surge could be the worst in decades!!!

Friday torrential rain: Shed Flooding!

As a low pressure system and warm front move through we have been getting torrential rain for hours! Over 3 hours now and everything is starting to flood!

This shed in my grandmothers back yard hasn't flooded in years and now it has!

One Year Anniversary of Hurricane Irene!

Check out the following links for photos from Hurricane Irene's landfall a year ago today August 28, 2011.  All the photos were taken by me in Milford, CT! 

Latest link is my contribution to WxEdge.com a social weather site about Connecticut weather. 

Irene Pummels the Coastline: Milford, CT 8/28/11 

 

 

The next few links are photos I placed on the website Hubpages.com on August 28, 2011 because i was lucky enough not to lose power!!!

 

 

Hurricane Irene Slams the Connecticut Coast! Photos!

 

Hurricane Irene Slams Connecticut More Photos!

 

More Photos of Hurricane Irene in Milford, CT

 

Devestation along the Connecticut Coast- More of Hurricane Irene's Impacts through Photos

 

and finally a comparison to the last storm to hit the same area:

 

Hurricane Irene vs Hurricane Gloria: a Photo Comparison