{"id":311988,"date":"2026-08-02T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311988\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:32:08","slug":"flood-watch-in-effect-for-all-of-western-new-york-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311988\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood Watch in effect for all of Western New York Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch for all of Western New York, beginning Sunday morning and continuing through late evening.<\/p>\n<p>With heavy rain in the forecast, meteorologists advise excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.<\/p>\n<p>Flooding may also occur in places with poor drainage, and in some urban areas.<\/p>\n<p>Scattered to numerous heavy showers and thunderstorms are expected today and tonight. Locally heavy rainfall is possible with rainfall rates near or exceeding two inches per hour at times. <\/p>\n<p>Repeated rounds of heavy rain over any given location could result in flash flooding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch for all of Western New York, beginning Sunday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-311988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311988","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=311988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}