Put on those puddle-jumper boots – the floods are coming!
Weather forecasters say heavy rains will pummel the metropolitan area, causing high runoff from melting snow packs and foot-deep pools of slush.
“It’s going to be a mess if the storm drains back up,” warned National Weather Service meteorologist Bill Goodman. “It’s not going to be nice.”
Goodman said 2 inches of rain are expected to fall today combined with another 2 to 4 inches from melted snow.
“It could become a major problem,” he added.
Flooding in areas that experience severe drainage problems could become a foot deep.
Warmer temperatures over the past two days have started thawing the snow mounds that already make pedestrian crossings a broad-jump event.
Flooding will be most severe on Long Island Sound and parts of Nassau County.
Tomorrow the rain will taper off, but a thunderstorm threatens later in the day, with wind gusts of 40 knots, increasing the chances of more flooding.