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Flash Flood Watch This Afternoon

Wet roads abound around Monroe County today
Alex Crichton
Wet roads abound around Monroe County today

It's been a very soggy couple of days, and motorists should be on the alert for ponding on the roads and clogged drainage systems.

The National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Watch for Rochester and many other areas until 4 this afternoon.

Even after the notification is lifted, small creeks and rivers can still pose a danger from flooding, according to meteorologist David Thomas with the National Weather Service in Buffalo.

"Streams and creeks will continue to run quite high here, even through the evening hours and overnight hours of tonight," he said.

Thomas says the light rain will continue overnight, but it won't be nearly as intense as it was last night and early today, when some areas were getting a half inch to one inch per hour.

Meantime, he says we're definitely falling into an autumn pattern now.

Some angry seas on the Lake Ontario shore this morning
Some angry seas on the Lake Ontario shore this morning

"With temperatures running at or below normal, (we're) looking for highs only in the 40s here for a couple days," he said.

Thomas say any snow expected in New York will fall in the Adirondacks.