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Rain
By adamg - 7/27/23 - 12:03 pm
Not just because of the heat, but because the National Weather Service says we can expect severe weather anytime through 8 p.m. or so, and that means: Read more.
By adamg - 7/25/23 - 3:48 pm
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.
By adamg - 7/17/23 - 8:48 am
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.
By adamg - 7/16/23 - 12:05 pm
The National Weather Service says be alert - and that even if we don't get tornadoes, we could see flooding from heavy rains.
By adamg - 7/14/23 - 12:20 pm
Tim West went up to the top of Peters Hill in the Arboretum around 7:30 this morning.
By adamg - 7/2/23 - 6:08 pm
Eileen Murphy and friend stopped to take in the hydrangeas on an otherwise gloomy, drizzly kind of day in South Boston.
By adamg - 6/16/23 - 3:01 pm
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.
By adamg - 6/14/23 - 9:19 pm
Hugmajesty captured some of the lightning over Allston this evening. Read more.
By adamg - 6/5/23 - 5:32 pm
Brenda looked towards Boston from Fisherman's Beach in Swampscott about 5:20 p.m.
By adamg - 12/23/22 - 3:26 pm
Nicholas Agri watched one of his neighbors rowing down Banks and Morton streets by Belle Isle Marsh in Winthrop today.
By adamg - 12/23/22 - 11:57 am
Wave hitting Winthrop Parkway in Revere. Photo by Brian Riccio.
Morrissey Boulevard? Long Wharf? Winthrop Drive? All shut at the morning high tide as wind-whipped waves came ashore. But also Day Boulevard in South Boston. Read more.
By adamg - 12/23/22 - 9:37 am
MEMA reports that as of 9:15 a.m., 74,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts have lost power.
The Eversource outage map so far shows only a few scattered outages in Boston and other inside-128 places.
By adamg - 10/18/22 - 9:37 am
Early riser Joe Kidston captured the rainbow over the water in Hull this morning.
By adamg - 10/14/22 - 11:00 am
CSO warning from BPHC.
The Boston Public Health Commission reports all the rain has overloaded local sewer mains, to the point that one MWRA outflow pipe, upstream of the North Washington Street Bridge, started pouring sewage-laden water into the inner harbor at 1:01 a.m, "creating a potential public health risk." Read more.
By adamg - 9/30/22 - 11:13 pm
Yes, you can blame Ian, or what's left of it, as shown in this NOAA satellite view taken around 11:05 p.m.
By adamg - 9/10/22 - 11:39 pm
Looking downstream from the canoe launch at Millennium Park this afternoon
All that rain at the beginning of the week means the Charles River has now reclaimed all new land that had sprung up along Millennium Park in West Roxbury after months of dry weather.
Compare to the view from that spot on Aug. 26: Read more.
By adamg - 9/6/22 - 3:11 pm
Welcome to Dot spotted these drenched, bedraggled turkeys on the Harborwalk near the JFK Library in Dorchester on this, our second straight day of rain.
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