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A storm
is bringing heavy rain, wind and coastal flooding to the area. 

<b>News 12</b> meteorologists say the storm will give way to frigid temperatures into the
weekend. 

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News 12 meteorologists say the storm will give way to frigid temperatures into the weekend. 

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Now picking back up where we left off, this is how things are panning out for us across the island as of right now, not seeing a whole lot of widespread heavy rainfall though just south of Port Jefferson, we are looking for a bit more of tents of rain pockets as we continue throughout the rest of tonight. But the rain itself is starting to spread more towards the east end, which wasn't seeing a whole lot of rain earlier into this afternoon. But as we continue throughout the rest of tonight, the entire island is going to be looking at a lot more rain as we continue throughout the overnight, going into our day morning. Now, here's a few numbers of what we've collected so far from radar estimations near two inches of rain for the western side of Suffolk County and for much of Nassau County between 1.5 to 2 inches of rain. Now, what this means over the last hour or several hours or so is that a lot of our streets have been resulting in kind of flooding or even hydroplaning for many of us who are trying to travel along the lie or into the residential roads as well. So the streets themselves are not really the best conditions and they're not gonna be improving over the next several hours though. We are looking for a bit of a dry spot after five, between seven o'clock. But once we get towards eight and later, we are looking for another batch of rain to stay consistent overnight. And on top of it, it's going to be heavy once again as well. So here's a look at not only the rain but the wind because we also are looking at that to be the double whammy of an effect for us overnight. Especially once we get closer to a round 10 o'clock, we could be seeing gusting winds around, I slip and much of the east end between 40 to 50 MPH overnight, going into our Monday morning. So again, for now, going into around seven o'clock, it's gonna be our best opportunity to not be seeing those heavy pockets of rain. But once we're past eight o'clock from Huntington to Smithtown and Rocky Point, a lot of areas just to the northern side of Long Island for Suffolk County is gonna start to see a lot more of those bands of heavy rain continuing throughout the rest of tonight. But we're really looking for that one line of heavy rain coming in around 10 o'clock is going to be spreading throughout the island to about midnight into our early Monday morning again, with this heavy rainfall, we could be seeing rainfall, uh starting to go into about an hour, about an inch an hour for some of these moments. So that's why we are looking at flooding to be a big issue for us overnight into our early Monday morning. But again, wind speeds are going to be an issue mainly for the east inside or for Suffolk County from Shirley to Hampton Bays and Rocky Point and even further toward the Twin Forks, we could be seeing those wind gusts between 40 to 50 MPH. And with an over saturated ground, we already saw some down trees, expect a bit more going into tomorrow as well. Quick. Look at how much rain we could be seeing again, close to four inches for some areas, which is why flooding is going to be a big concern going into not tonight just tonight, but for Monday morning as well. But once we get to Monday afternoon, we're dry.

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Weather

Freeport flooding

Thunderbolt 12 checks out the road conditions across Long Island 

LIJacob122310AM_2022-12-23-10-12-11

unfortunately Aaron, we are still dealing with these high waters. In fact so much so that we are at Merrick Road. The water has reached Merrick Road north of Merrick Road. We are seeing that on what is known as Buffalo Avenue right here at the intersection of Merrick Merrick Road and Buffalo Avenue like Caroline said people are being a little daring. We are so Seeing quite a few people at risk it and go through a lot of this flood water which by the way is at point knee deep, not exactly where we are, but the water is making it into the 711 parking lot right where we are. And points on the street is knee deep. If you look behind me you can actually see, I'm gonna back up here. You can actually see there is a car and it is pretty much halfway up the tires on that car. So that is really what we're dealing with down here. And we're not even all the way down at the southernmost point of Freeport. We are right at Merrick Road so there is plenty of activity going on down south of this area. We are really seeing quite a bit of floodwater here. We tried to get some people to talk to us before they were across the street. They didn't wanna make the trek across the street. I don't blame them because look at look at Buffalo Avenue right here. Um we is knee deep and so we can't really make any sort of movement outside of this area that we're in right here over in the 7 11 parking lot. So we continue to monitor the situation here, it looks like it's really not doing much in the way of receding, at least in this part of freeport. So this, if you are in this area of freeport, even trying to get here, we had so we had quite a bit of trouble especially getting down several of the roads that border the Meadowbrook Parkway. A lot of this water is reaching farther north than really than the lower lying areas south of Merrick Road. So this is something to really keep an eye on if you are planning on traveling along the south shore of Long Island today, erin Rachel Jacob, I'm not sure if you can hear us, but if you can, are you surprised that the water has receded a little bit more or it's just there's so much water in the roads that it's going to last throughout the day and maybe even to the next high tide cycle. Well, you know, I'm not really surprised because Rich had mentioned earlier about uh that southerly wind that we have coming out of the south right now pushing that water up through the great south Bay, we're still seeing that being pushed up into those south shore communities. So even though we have seen that high tide move further east, we are going to continue to deal with this flooding. And especially in these lower lying areas that are tend to get tend to be used to this type of flooding. When we get these types of systems. Jacob, thank you so much for heading out there and showing us those pictures. We will check back with you in a bit. Stay safe. Of course, we want everyone's focusing on a call.

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