There will be periods of rain over three days which will add up to about 1-to-3 inches of water for most of southern New England.

A hybrid rainstorm that gained a new level of celebrity Friday when it was declared Tropical Storm Ophelia promises to generate daylong downpours throughout the Philadelphia region Saturday, and gusts as high as 50 mph at the Shore,

Forecasts call for heavy rain in Baltimore from Saturday to Sunday evening. Andrew Snyder, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said either a subtropical storm or low-pressure system could bring an inch of rain and 30 mph winds to the city throughout Saturday.

WBAL NewsRadio 1090/FM 101.5 - Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall early Saturday morning near Emerald Isle, North Carolina, with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph.

The storm's current track shows it sweeping through North Carolina, Virginia, the Washington D.C. metro area, Delaware and southern New Jersey.

Life-threatening flooding caused by the weather system was forecast for parts of eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia.

A tropical storm off the mid-Atlantic coast began dumping rain on parts of North Carolina on Friday and will likely bring more precipitation along with high winds and storm surges to parts of Virginia and Delaware,

Tropical Storm Ophelia is forecasted to bring heavy rain, strong winds and possibly even tornadoes to much of the East Coast this weekend.

The Long Beach Boardwalk was mostly empty Saturday morning and the surf intensified as the huge storm got nearer.