Tropical Storm Andrea to Dump Heavy Rain Over U.S. East

Tropical Storm Andrea will spread heavy rain across the entire U.S. East Coast as it moves northeast toward a weekend landfall in Nova Scotia.

Andrea, which formed June 5 in the Gulf of Mexico, was expected to go ashore in northwestern Florida yesterday and begin crossing over land toward Virginia. It’s forecast to enter the Atlantic off Delaware late today and then hug the coast, dropping 2 or more inches (5 centimeters) of rain from Washington to New York to Boston, before reaching open water east of the Canadian Maritimes on June 9, said the U.S. National Hurricane Center.