A flood watch has been issued for the Juneau area following leftovers from a tropical storm crossed across Southeast Alaska this week. National Weather Service meteorologist Pete Boyd advised forecasters to be monitoring flood-prone areas, specifically in the vicinity of Jordan Creek and Montana Creek.
” style=”font-weight 400 ;”>”We began to notice rises in the creeks,” Boyd said. “But in the present, we’re beginning to see them cresting. .”
The rain is expected to decrease until Thursday morning, however flooding remains a possibility in the Juneau region. The issue of a flood warning occurs whenever there is a risk of flooding, and rivers rising. Under an emergency flood watch, the threat of flooding isn’t imminent.
Boyd confirmed that the likelihood of flooding would decrease as the rain continues to get lighter heading to Thursday afternoon.
“span style=”font-weight 400 ;”>”Precipitation rates and the amount of precipitation are already declining quickly,” Boyd said. “In fact we’re already beginning to see cracks in the clouds in certain areas.”
The heavy rain this week record-breaking daily rainfall was broken for Juneau, Ketchikan and Sitka. Juneau was hit with just two inches on Wednesday surpassing earlier records by 1.51 inches set from 1964.
Despite the record being set, Boyd says that amount of rain is fairly typical of the month of the month of October Southeast Alaska.
Showers of light rain will continue throughout the weekend, until a time of dry colder and cooler weather that will begin next week.
