Lake Ontario is still rising. The Army Corps of Engineers says Sunday morning’s reading was 248.3 feet, driven by more than three inches of rain in the first week of May. Normally Rochester gets less than three inches of rain for the entire month. Lake Ontario is now just six inches away from an all-time […]
There are flood watches from the southwestern Southern Tier into the Finger Lakes today as a cold front pushes severe thunderstorms our way. The Rochester area is under flood watch until midnight. The risk is greatest in late afternoon through this evening, with a chance of showers and thunderstorms producing up to an inch […]
The National Weather Service records 1.38 inches of rain for Rochester on Thursday, which is a lot, but still shy of the record 1.75 inches set in 1888. We also had half-an-inch of snow. This week’s high rainfall has caused flooding in Ellison Park from Irondequoit Creek, and Monroe County officials say the park is […]