under a flood watch<\/a> starting at midnight Thursday through Friday morning. Much of Central Texas is also under a flood advisory in that time frame, and National Weather Service forecasters say some areas could see as much as six inches of rain by the end of the week. <\/p>\nNWS Meteorologist Eric Platt said the heavy pockets of rain will be concentrated in the Hill Country west of Austin, though Austin streams could see some flooding, as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is a concern,\u201d he said. \u201cThere’s a lot of rock and there’s not a lot of soil per se. So, it really doesn’t take much to get runoff, especially in the urban areas. So yeah, we do have a concern for some possible flash flooding in the urban areas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Platt said he expects the front to bring the most rain to Austin on Thursday, with chances of rain hovering between 70 and 80% by midday. By Friday, he said, the rain will taper off, but the weather service expects another front to hit the Austin area on Sunday.<\/p>\n
That front could bring even more much-needed rain to the Austin area. Last month was the second-hottest October on record in Austin, and meteorologists say this fall has been off to an unseasonably dry start<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forecasters expect the Austin area to see potentially heavy rains Wednesday night into Friday morning. Travis, Hays and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,30822,134,133,12257,30823,12258,15391,171,4178,1971,30821],"class_list":["post-56781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-floods","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-flood","tag-flood-advisory","tag-flood-warning","tag-flood-watch","tag-forecast","tag-hill-country","tag-national-weather-service","tag-nws-forecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}