Intensifying storm drenching a swath from Florida to Virginia
An intensifying atmospheric river that has drenched parts of the South with as much as 9 inches of flooding rain will surge north and east on Monday.
The storm, which caused a waterspout and tornado in Pensacola, Florida, over the weekend, is stretching 1,000 miles from South Florida to southern Pennsylvania, bringing intense rain to some areas, including some of the heaviest downpours since Hurricane Helene in the western Carolinas.
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