{"id":272757,"date":"2026-08-26T19:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272757\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T19:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:40:07","slug":"bethlehem-area-wfmz-tv-69news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272757\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Area &#8211; WFMZ-TV 69News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bulletin: &#8230;FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE<br \/>\nTHURSDAY NIGHT&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* WHAT&#8230;Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.<\/p>\n<p>* WHERE&#8230;Portions of northern Delaware, including the following<br \/>\narea, New Castle, New Jersey, including the following areas,<br \/>\nCamden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris,<br \/>\nNorthwestern Burlington, Somerset, Sussex and Western Monmouth,<br \/>\nand southeast Pennsylvania, including the following areas,<br \/>\nDelaware, Eastern Chester, Eastern Montgomery, Lower Bucks,<br \/>\nPhiladelphia, Upper Bucks, Western Chester and Western Montgomery.<\/p>\n<p>* WHEN&#8230;From Thursday afternoon through late Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>* IMPACTS&#8230;Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas.<\/p>\n<p>* ADDITIONAL DETAILS&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211; Showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop by mid-day<br \/>\nThursday. Some of these showers and thunderstorms are<br \/>\nexpected to produce very heavy rainfall. 1-2 inches of rain<br \/>\ncan be expected with localized amounts of 3-5 inches possible<br \/>\nin the strongest storms.<br \/>\n&#8211; http:\/\/www.weather.gov\/safety\/flood<\/p>\n<p>PRECAUTIONARY\/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action<br \/>\nshould Flash Flood Warnings be issued.<\/p>\n<p>&amp;&amp;<\/p>\n<p>Info: <\/p>\n<p>Type: Flood Watch<\/p>\n<p>start_time_local: 2026-08-27T12:00:00-04:00<\/p>\n<p>end_time_local: 2026-08-28T04:00:00-04:00<\/p>\n<p>county_name: <\/p>\n<p>state: PA<\/p>\n<p>headline: Flood Watch from THU 12:00 PM EDT until FRI 4:00 AM EDT<\/p>\n<p>county_fips: <\/p>\n<p>category: Met<\/p>\n<p>url: <\/p>\n<p>urgency: Unknown<\/p>\n<p>severity: Moderate<\/p>\n<p>certainty: Unknown<\/p>\n<p>geographicname: Upper Bucks County<\/p>\n<p>state_name: Pennsylvania<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulletin: &#8230;FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT&#8230; * WHAT&#8230;Flash flooding caused by excessive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1462],"class_list":["post-272757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-wfmz-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}