17 inches of rain with more to come: Pensacola could be underwater this weekend

National Weather Service radar readings estimated that up to 17 inches of rain fell in some areas of Pensacola in the last 12 hours, but the rain is not over yet.

Weather service meteorologist Don Shepherd told the New Journal that additional rounds of severe weather are expected to move through the area over the next 24 hours.

In the short term, Pensacola should get a break from some of the heavier rain over the next few hours.

"But as you get into the evening hours, late tonight towards the mid-evening, it looks like another system (moves in)," Shepherd said. "Pretty much what we've had. We're stuck in this pattern. Another system will drop down on the northwest and cross the area."

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Shepherd said a stalled weather boundary that runs from northern Mississippi to south Alabama would continue to generate rounds of convective storms that have intensity levels that are hard to predict.

"It's hard to nail down if it will be like this one that just came across, but potentially it could be," Shepherd said. "It may not be as bad. It's just hard to say."

Shepherd said more heavy rain is likely for Pensacola, and the risk of flooding is higher now because the soil is saturated from the storms Thursday night and Friday morning.

Pensacola reported that the rain gauge at City Hall recorded 11.56 inches of rain in nine hours.

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Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves appeared on The Weather Channel on Friday and said that stormwater retention ponds in the city are nearing or at capacity.

"Any additional storms precipitation, winds or otherwise, we're concerned about trees coming down," he said.

Shepherd said another round of severe storms is expected around daybreak, and there is the possibility of more storms on Sunday.

"Things are not going to be changing a whole lot through the weekend, unfortunately," Shepherd said.

This article originally appeared on Pensacola News Journal: Pensacola flooding possible as weekend storms, severe weather linger