A very short post tonight. Flooding is widespread and as long as it keeps raining, it will only get worse, especially here in town with the small urban creeks. I see Battle Creek in south Salem is now flooding and will rise more over the next few hours. I imagine Pringle Creek and Mill creek will also continue to rise more through the night before leveling out. Heavy rain continues here in Salem for a few more hours before changing over to showers around midnight.

Tomorrow will feature scattered showers and sunbreaks, but the damage will have been done. Slower responding rivers like the Willamette, Pudding, Luckiamute, and Marys River will all continue to rise throughout the day on Friday as the mountain ranges and smaller streams drain into them. Rainfall records are being set in many locations. Salem is well over two inches for the day, Tillamook is well over 4 inches, and the Albany area is approaching 4 inches of rain just for today!

Lots of flooding on streets and in parking lots tonight. The rest of the week and weekend looks showery, but normal. No insane rainfall totals for the near future once we make it through this storm.

Okay, stay safe out there.