The MBTA reported at 11:14 a.m. it had suspended all Providence Line service "until further notice due to debris on the tracks from severe weather in the Mansfield area. At 11:37, Keolis reported a train to Boston had left Wickford Junction but would hold at Attleboro because some of that debris remained on the tracks. Read more.

The MBTA reported at 11:42 a.m. that it had gone to D Line bustitution between Fenway and Reservoir "due to excessive water at Brookline Hills."

The Charles River at the Millennium Park canoe launch today looked a bit different from the view on July 29, 2022: Read more.

As the torrential rains pour down, Columbia Road has flooded at Hamilton (where the train tracks cross) and in the area of Devon Street.

The flooding there sent motorists down Quincy Street, where they promptly had to stop near Ceylon Street, because of flooding under the train tracks there. One motorist climbed out of his car and was standing on the roof of his car due to floodwaters that came about halfway up his car.

The Boston Water and Sewer Commission says it plans to start levying a new "stormwater charge" next year to expand and improve the city's current 600-mile, 30,000-catchbasin storm-runoff network, both to reduce the amount of contaminants that flow into our rivers and Boston Harbor and to handle greater surges from increasingly heavy rainfall spurred by climate change. Read more.

Tim West went up to the top of Peters Hill in the Arboretum around 7:30 this morning.

The Charles River Conservancy has announced its canceled tomorrow's City Splash swim event at the Esplanade due to forecast "heavy rain and potential thunderstorms" that would make swimming unsafe.

The group had set Sunday as its rain date, but it's been forced to cancel that as well, because all the rain Saturday could mean unsafe levels of potentially harmful microorganisms via pipes that still drain into the river.

Brenda looked towards Boston from Fisherman's Beach in Swampscott about 5:20 p.m.

Nicholas Agri watched one of his neighbors rowing down Banks and Morton streets by Belle Isle Marsh in Winthrop today.