ANOTHER Flood Hits Toronto, Canada; World Cup Soccer City Under Water, Too.

A major highway in Toronto last night.  

Yesterday, me and other weather geeks were watching a slow moving cold front slide through the Northeast.  

The front caused areas of torrential rain that prompted flood alerts in parts of central and southern New England, and parts of New York and Pennsylvania.

But I was surprised to learn this morning that Toronto, Ontario, Canada suffered a serious flash flood last night.

Surprised, because the main band of rain with the cold front seemed to have already gone by southern Ontario and the area seemed largely out of the woods in terms of super heavy rain.

But downpours lingering in a patch behind the main cold front dumped three inches of rain within about three hours on Toronto, flooding major highways, messing up the subways and screwing around with other forms of public transportation.  

Several people had to be rescued from suddenly inundated cars.

The flash flood in Toronto was reminiscent of a similar, even worse incident last year, when on July 8, 2013, a massive flood hit the city. The flood cost about $850 million and was billed as most expensive disaster in Ontario history. 

RECIFE FLOOD:

Meanwhile, we're all gearing up to watch the United States-Germany World Cup soccer match from Recife, Brazil today.  

From @CindyBoren on Twitter, the scene in Recife today.  

I suspect a lot of people are swimming to the event, as some major flooding has hit that city. 

There was some question as to whether the game could go on, but as it stood a couple hours before the match was scheduled to start, the event is still on.

The storm in Recife was very localized, with heavy rain falling on the city with nearby surrounding areas staying dry.

HERE IN VERMONT:

In Vermont, where this blog is based, there was some minor flooding in the southern parts of the state but nothing extreme.

The most rain I found was a rather impressive 2.92 inches at Union Village Dam, 2.52 inches in Putney and 2.45 inches in North Hartland. A lot of areas in the state received more than an inch or rain.