{"id":3731,"date":"2010-12-10T08:12:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2010-12-12T11:43:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T19:43:57","slug":"breaking-news-flood-watch-issued-early-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=3731","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news: Flood watch issued early this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3736\" style=\"width: 379px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/20101210.smallweatherpic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3736\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3736\" title=\"weather picture\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/20101210.smallweatherpic.png\" alt=\"2010.1210.smallweatherpic\" width=\"369\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/20101210.smallweatherpic.png 369w, https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/20101210.smallweatherpic-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dark green represents the areas under a flood watch. The pink areas are under a winter storm warning \/ Courtesy picture from National Weather Service<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service early this morning issued a flood watch for tomorrow afternoon through Monday afternoon for portions of Western Washington including Lewis County.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rains mean some rivers are certain to flood and some &#8211; such as the Chehalis River in Lewis and Grays Harbor counties which face at least a moderate threat of flooding, according to the advisory.<\/p>\n<p>Even small streams could overflow their banks and urban flooding where drainage is poor is possible, according to the Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>The forecasters note it&#8217;s impossible at this point to say how much rain will fall and where.<\/p>\n<p>The advisory comes as East Lewis County and other areas of the state are under a winter storm warning through noon today &#8211; with up to six inches of additional snow expected in some places.<br \/>\n\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Check the weather forecast or your area <a title=\"National Weather Service Forecast Office\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/sew\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the latest flood warnings, watches and weather statements <a title=\"Flood watch\" href=\"http:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/showsigwx.php?warnzone=WAZ504&amp;warncounty=WAC041&amp;firewxzone=WAZ655&amp;local_place1=2+Miles+ENE+Chehalis+WA&amp;product1=Flood+Watch\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check the river level forecast for your area <a title=\"National Weather Service river observation and forecasts for Western Washington\" href=\"http:\/\/water.weather.gov\/ahps2\/index.php?wfo=sew\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter The National Weather Service early this morning issued a flood watch for tomorrow afternoon through Monday afternoon for portions of Western Washington including Lewis County. Heavy rains mean some rivers are certain to flood and some &#8211; such as the Chehalis River in Lewis and Grays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3739,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions\/3739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}