The Milwaukee River at Estabrook Park and the Root River in Franklin have both broken the old flood stage records. The Fox River in Waukesha will also reach record flood stage later today. To say this is a historic and unprecedented flood isn't hyperbole. It's a fact.

August 16: 11:20AM AST Hurricane Hunters find #Erin is now a Category 5 Hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph. Visit hurricanes.gov for the latest

Record flooding along the Hudson was a less-known impact of the epic March 1913 flood. Just randomly saw this high water mark near the river in Troy, NY! CC Mike Bilde☈, CEM 🗝️🪁

Pretty nice synoptic setup for swaths of severe wind and some tornadoes in New England today. Obligatory insane HRRR screenshot.

September 7-8, 2011: Tropical Storm Lee drenched a wide swath of the Eastern US. A few days after landfall, its remnants inundated parts of the Mid-Atlantic & Northeast, leading to some of the worst flooding in the region since 1972's Hurricane Agnes. #wxhistory

All-timer satellite image with a show from Humberto, now the 12th category five hurricane in the last ten years and the sixth since 2022.