this is the estimate of the rainfall for the past couple days, you can see these little bull's-eyes of orange and redleast six inches of rain. it is pretty widespread coverage of the showers over the past couple days, and of course some heavy downpours leading to flooding. in fact, 55 million people are still under flood alert in the main all the way down to d.c.. that includes new york, philly, and boston. the current radar shows a moderate batch of rain moving across the area, nothing too intense right now and certainly nothing severe as far as strong thunderstorms. that's looking rainfall falls on top of areas that have already gotten a lot of, rain in the computer forecast model shows the showers will continue and eventually begin to dissipate by the time we get to late wednesday. by then, we should see an additional 2 to 4 inches of rain are the eloy shaded area you see there. the heat wave out west, the flooding in the east, they are actually connected. this is the chess team riding high across the west, that ridge of high pressure making in the west, but then there is a dip in the eastern half