SYRACUSE, N.Y. — As we’ve been including in our forecast since the start of the weekend slow-moving, repetitive, pouring rainfall would be impacting parts of CNY Sunday and Sunday night.
The National Weather Service has issued flood watches for the counties shaded in dark green until 2 a.m. Monday.
Here are the LATEST weather alerts including warnings and advisories:
There continues to be the potential for flash flooding type rainfall now through the late night hours of Sunday. The best locations to see this would be in the yellow shaded areas of the map including Syracuse Rome, Oswego, Auburn to Cortland and Ithaca. Flash flooding may also occur but to a lesser extent for Utica, Hamilton, Norwich and Marathon.
If you or someone you know receive a FLASH FLOOD WARNING on your phone here are some simple and easy-to-follow safety reminders:
Lets update you on my weather timeline so you can plan you and your family’s life around the forecast:
Here’s my hourly forecast now through Monday afternoon when the weather should greatly improve:
The system responsible for all the humidity, rainfall and cloud cover is a low-pressure system that’s slow in motion therefore keeping these weather conditions lasting much longer than many would like to see.
Future radar is here to show you when the rain chances decrease, the sun comes out, the cooler night temperatures and gorgeous weather returns:
Beyond Monday and Tuesday’s improved forecast, the remainder of the week will be very hot and very humid. It will be so hot in fact I believe heat advisories could be issued for a few days where the feels like temperature could be anywhere between 90 and 96 degrees outside!
So for the rest of tonight it will continue to feel like we’re in Florida:
The week ahead weather will first go from wet to dry and sunny, then some serious and potentially dangerous heat will return for the second half of the week…