Communities south of Boston have seen as much as 4 and a half inches of rain, with a flash flood warning still in effect.

Chicago experienced one of its heaviest rainfall events since September 2023 on Tuesday night, leading to water rescues and flooded basements.An outflow boundary surging northward into the city from earlier storms south of Interstate 80 led to one lone thunderstorm cell developing over Chicago just before 9 p.

The heavy rain that turned a river in Texas into a raging wall of water was fueled by unique atmospheric conditions, according to meteorologists and climate scientists.