Afternoon Storm Could Produce 'Flooding Issues'

Heavy rain will move in to Swampscott on Thursday and bring an end to a stretch of unseasonable temperatures this week.

The showers and scattered thunderstorms on Thursday and Thursday night “will produce heavy rainfall, which may lead to flooding issues,” according to the National Weather Service.

The storm system has included severe weather and prompted some tornado watches to the south and west, but severe weather is not expected with the storm system in New England or Massachusetts.

The rain could just as easily be snow - five years ago this weekend the area saw 1-3 inches of snow on Oct. 18, 2009, according to WHDH-TV meteorologist Jeremy Reiner.

It will be a “strong, slow moving storm” that won’t move in until after the Thursday morning commute. By the end of the evening, 1-2 inches of rain will have fallen, Reiner said.

The heart of the storm will move through during the New England Patriots’ Thursday night game in Foxborough.