Chris Helms
Puddles form outside Jamaica Plain News World Headquarters in Roslindale on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014.
The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch as drenching rains, possibly punctuated by torrential rainfall from "embedded thunderstorms."
The watch covers Boston's Suffolk County and a wide swath of New England.
Federal forecasters say the rain will taper this evening from west to east. The flash flood watch expires at 8 p.m.
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