{"id":308435,"date":"2026-07-29T09:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/308435\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:27:24","slug":"isolated-flooding-possible-in-vermont-new-york-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/308435\/","title":{"rendered":"Isolated flooding possible in Vermont, New York on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flood alerts issued as locally heavy rain impacts Vermont, New York Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>A few towns may pick up over 4 inches of rain by Wednesday evening<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynbc5.com\/news-team\/9ee54311-816d-4c47-b9c0-afb1830fc183\" aria-label=\"Ben Frechette profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9ee54311-816d-4c47-b9c0-afb1830fc183_1700513235.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Ben Frechette\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Waves of rain will continue across Vermont and northern New York through Wednesday night, with locally heavy rainfall creating a risk for isolated to scattered flash flooding.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bf6ce397-2aea-433a-967b-c4eef50122fe.png\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Flood watch (green) through Wednesday evening. <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bf6ce397-2aea-433a-967b-c4eef50122fe.png\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">A Flood Watch remains in effect for parts of southern and central Vermont and Essex County, New York.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2b989b36-e8bf-4715-ac56-d0b139a7f086.png\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Additional rainfall through Thursday morning (map updated early Wed. morning). <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2b989b36-e8bf-4715-ac56-d0b139a7f086.png\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Another 1 to 3 inches could fall through Wednesday night across portions of southern and central Vermont and along the eastern slopes of the northern Adirondacks. Localized totals of 3 to 4 additional inches cannot be ruled out in the higher elevations of the southern Green Mountains.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eaf99035-b4e4-4e23-9cd4-01af4e732475.png\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Flash flood risk for Wednesday, red denotes highest risk (Level 3 of 4 in far southern Vermont). <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eaf99035-b4e4-4e23-9cd4-01af4e732475.png\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">The greatest concern is across southern Vermont, where repeated rounds of rain could cause small streams to rise quickly and lead to flooding in poor-drainage or low-lying areas. Larger rivers are generally expected to remain within their banks, and widespread flooding is not anticipated.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">The heaviest rain is expected from Wednesday morning through the middle of the afternoon. The flood threat will gradually decrease Wednesday night as the storm system begins moving east.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">Showers will become lighter and less widespread Thursday before ending Thursday night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flood alerts issued as locally heavy rain impacts Vermont, New York Wednesday A few towns may pick up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[116329,116040,93626,116326,90335,33027,78339,39587,13946,15353,116720,14236,20233,116713,20582,536,34019,116712,116721,18173,116324,116042,116717,116325,116327,116043,17984,23542,9,116041,11,10,104222,116328,3039,42751,116718,116714,603,116044,116716,116322,78338,116321,1535,116045,26325,90769,18426,116046,116323,1634,104219,42747,116719,23266,22077,13274,93983,116715,6951],"class_list":["post-308435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-903b-20a90e91d85d","tag-adirondacks-weather","tag-aligncenter","tag-am-wednesday","tag-bennington","tag-concern","tag-downpour","tag-effect","tag-essex-county","tag-flash-flooding","tag-flood-alert","tag-flooding","tag-forecast","tag-great-risk","tag-green-mountains","tag-heavy-rain","tag-inch","tag-isolated-flooding","tag-large-river","tag-late-tuesday-night","tag-localized-flood-risk","tag-localized-flooding","tag-low-lying-area","tag-mediaid624e5af7-c17d-454e-8e8d-64e5b8777fec","tag-midday-thursday","tag-midweek-weather","tag-nbc5","tag-nbc5-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-forecast","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-northern-new-york-weather","tag-numerous-shower","tag-part","tag-period","tag-poor-drainage","tag-poor-drainage-area","tag-rain","tag-rain-forecast","tag-risk-factor","tag-sharetrue","tag-shower","tag-sizemedium","tag-social-medium","tag-thunderstorm-forecast","tag-thursday","tag-torrential-rain","tag-tuesday-night","tag-unsettled-weather","tag-upper-70","tag-vermont","tag-vermont-forecast","tag-vermont-weather","tag-wave","tag-wednesday","tag-wednesday-night","tag-week","tag-weekend-forecast","tag-windham-counties","tag-wptz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}