Soaking storms for truckers across eastern US

Truckers will have to plan ahead and expect delays in the eastern U.S the rest of the week. A slow-moving system will produce repeated periods of heavy rain in places mainly east of the Mississippi River over the next few days. Rain totals in some spots could exceed 5 inches, with locally higher amounts.

There’s potential for scattered flash flooding and road closures, especially in low-lying areas and on secondary routes. It could happen anywhere from parts of the Gulf Coast to the Ohio Valley, eastward to the mid-Atlantic and the Southeast.

As of 8 a.m. ET Wednesday, the National Weather Service (NWS) had no flash flood watches posted, but this could change.

The silver lining — severe storms will be few and far between. Tornadoes, extremely gusty winds and large hail will be quite isolated, with the best chances coming Thursday from Virgiia to southeastern Pennsylvania.