National Weather Service <\/a>has issued a flood watch for much of Western Washington. Read the following release from the National Weather Service:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u2022 SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL IS ANTICIPATED THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
FRIDAY…WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL EXPECTED FROM THE OLYMPIC<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
RANGE EASTWARD. POTENTIALLY 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN…WITH LOCAL<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
AMOUNTS UP TO 4 INCHES IN THE CASCADES…COULD FALL DURING THIS<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
PERIOD. IN ADDITION…THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY COULD PRODUCE<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
RAIN RATES OF AN INCH IN ONE HOUR OR LESS.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
* THE POTENTIALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL COULD LEAD TO URBAN AND SMALL<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
STREAM FLOODING. A SHORT PERIOD OF INTENSE RAINFALL ON THURSDAY<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING AND OVERWHELM STORM DRAINS…LEADING<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
TO FLOODED ROADS. MUD OR ROCK SLIDES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE IN STEEP<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN. EXPECT SIGNIFICANT RISES ON AREA RIVERS BUT<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
FLOODING IS UNLIKELY.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Heavy rainfall could strike Kent and the rest of Western Washington from Thursday afternoon through Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15776"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}