FloodingThe National Weather Ser­vice has extended a Coastal Flood Advisory for our region until Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 12th, at 6:00pm.  A per­sis­tent north­east coastal storm con­tin­ues to bring strong winds, heavy rain, and some minor coastal flood­ing at time of high tide to our com­mu­nity.  Any high tide event today and tomor­row may be aggra­vated by heavy rains that may fall in the region.  Con­tinue to mon­i­tor this weather sys­tem on tra­di­tional media out­lets.  Never attempt to drive through stand­ing water, and if you have any emer­gency, please dial 911.  Avalon Police con­tinue to close Ocean Drive towards the Townsend’s Inlet Bridge due to wave over­wash on the road­way.  If you have any out­door objects that are prone to high winds, bring them inside.  Avoid dri­ving in flood prone areas dur­ing time of high tide.

Here is the tide infor­ma­tion for Fri­day and Sat­ur­day.  At the Townsend’s Inlet Bridge, high tide will occur Fri­day at 1:42pm, and again on Sat­ur­day at 2:22am and 2:53am.  At Stone Harbor/Great Chan­nel, high tide will occur on Fri­day at 2:09pm, and again on Sat­ur­day at 2:49am and 3:20pm.

Here is the text of the Coastal Flood Advi­sory from the National Weather Ser­vice, along with an advi­sory about heavy rain along the Jer­sey Shore:

Coastal Flood Advi­sory now in effect until 6 PM EDT Saturday…

* coastal flood­ing… wide­spread minor coastal flood­ing is expected dur­ing the Fri­day after­noon high tide cycle. Any heavy rain that might occur near the time of high tide would enhance the flood­ing. The pro­longed onshore winds may also keep the back bays from drain­ing… allow­ing the minor flood­ing to per­sist longer. Another round of minor tidal flood­ing is expected dur­ing the Sat­ur­day after­noon high tide cycle, with the pos­si­ble excep­tion of north­ern coastal New Jer­sey where water lev­els may peak just below the minor flood mark.

* High surf with incom­ing east­erly swells of 6 to 9 feet will result in areas of beach erosion.

* Tim­ing… high tide along the New Jer­sey and Delaware ocean fronts occurs between 100 PM and 300 PM both Fri­day and Sat­ur­day. High tide on the back bays occurs later than the high tide along the ocean front. High tide on Sat­ur­day occurs

* impacts… wide­spread poor drainage and road­way flood­ing is fore­cast with the Fri­day after­noon and Sat­ur­day after­noon high tide.

* Out­look… given the pro­longed onshore flow… minor coastal flood­ing is pos­si­ble again on Sun­day afternoon.

* Seas… 6 to 10 feet on the ocean waters, and 2 to 6 feet on Delaware Bay.

Precautionary/preparedness actions…

A coastal Flood Advi­sory indi­cates that minor tidal flood­ing is antic­i­pated. Minor tidal flood­ing often results in some Road clo­sures. Usu­ally… the most vul­ner­a­ble road­ways will flood.

State­ment as of 5:08 AM EDT on Octo­ber 11, 2013

… Show­ers and iso­lated thun­der­storms with heavy rain will con­tinue to affect the Del­marva Penin­sula… Philadel­phia and the west­ern sub­urbs and the south­ern third of New Jersey…

an area of show­ers and iso­lated thun­der­storms with heavy rain cov­ered por­tions of Atlantic… Berks… Burling­ton… Cam­den… Cape May… Car­o­line… Cecil… Chester… Cum­ber­land… Delaware… Glouces­ter… Kent… Mont­gomery… New Cas­tle… Philadel­phia… Queen Anne’s… Salem… Sus­sex and Tal­bot coun­ties. The area was gen­er­ally mov­ing north­west at 25 mph.

Very heavy rain will fall from the stronger show­ers and iso­lated thun­der­storms. Some amounts could reach half an inch to inch within an hour as they move through. This will cause water to pond on roads and fill poor drainage areas. The rain can cause rapid rises on small streams and creeks and over­all will slow the morn­ing commute.