By 6:30 a.m., Sea Isle City and Cape May were already reporting winds over 60 miles an hour.
Tropical Storm Ophelia rolled into the Philadelphia region early Saturday morning, bringing lashing wind and rain to much of Delaware, South Jersey, the city and its suburbs.
“It’s not ideal to see that when flooding is happening at low tide and the tide is only going to get higher as the day goes on,” said Eric Hoeflich, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.The National Hurricane Center warned of “heavy rainfall from this system may produce locally considerable flash, and urban flooding impacts across portions of the Mid-Atlantic states from North Carolina to New Jersey.
Hoeflich said that the worst impacts will be felt over the next six to eight hours, lasting at least into the early evening.
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