The World of Nations at Metropolitan Park was a veritable sea of mud and umbrellas on its opening day today.
The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for portions of Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia through Saturday morning.
Meteorologist Marie Trabert says low pressure systems to the west and the south are responsible for the bands of heavy rain that could dump as much as four inches of rain on the First Coast.
"It's just pretty continuous coming in off the coastal waters onshore so we expect this to continue the rest of the afternoon, evening, like this. And, it'll take until the low pressure system to our west shifts position before this changes."
Trabert thinks conditions will start improving Friday, and continue through Sunday when another low pressure system is expected to bring more rain to the area.
