Helene’s onslaught of rain isn’t over yet.

The storm swiftly moved inland after making landfall late Thursday night, carving a path of fallen timber from the Gulf Coast into the Appalachians and bringing flooding rains that overtopped river banks and caused destructive landslides. Helene weakened to a post-tropical cyclone on Friday afternoon, but its effects may linger through the weekend as it stalls over central Tennessee.

Forecasters said early Friday that Helene’s main circulation was dissipating, but that the moisture and heavy rain associated with it were not. The Blue Ridge Mountains are oriented just right, so the tropical moisture is being pushed against them, forced to rise and rung out like a wet towel over the high terrain.

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