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06-06-2025
- Climate
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Six New York counties under flood watch for evening of June 6. What you need to know
Excessive rain in portions of central New York on the evening of June 6 prompted a flood watch from National Weather Service Binghamton. At 11:16 a.m. June 6, the service issued a flash flood watch in Broome, Chemung, Cortland, Sullivan, Tioga and Tompkins county. Areas across the New York-Pennsylvania state line, including Bradford, Northern Wayne and Susquehanna counties, were also warned of flash flooding in the statement. "Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations," the service stated. Monitor forecasts online at and be prepared to take action by reviewing flood safety resources should Flash Flood Warnings be issued. Flash flooding usually begins within six hours, but often within three hours, of heavy rain or mass amounts of water accumulating in an area, according to the National Weather Service. This type of flooding usually happens very quickly and catches people off guard. It can be caused by a number of things, but is often due to extremely heavy rainfall from thunderstorms. "The intensity of the rainfall, the location and distribution of the rainfall, the land use and topography, vegetation types and growth/density, soil type, and soil water-content all determine just how quickly the flash flooding may occur, and influence where it may occur," writes the National Weather Service. More: Ithaca flood insurance rate maps are changing. A flood watch and a flood warning are two different things. Here's the difference. A flood watch indicates that the conditions are favorable to flooding in an area that is under a watch. These flood watches are usually issued hours and even days ahead of the weather event that could cause the flooding. A flood warning means that the flooding that could be harmful and poses a serious threat to property and people is expected. This too can be issued hours and days ahead of time based on forecast predictions. Anytime flooding is a risk people should use caution. Water levels can change rapidly during periods of heavy rainfall. This article originally appeared on Ithaca Journal: Flood watch in Ithaca: National Weather Service issues alert
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Business
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Asking price on Tompkins County home listings rose in February. See the current median price
The median home in Tompkins County listed for $481,000 in February, up 7.3% from the previous month's $448,500, an analysis of data from shows. Compared to February 2024, the median home list price increased 26.6% from $380,000. The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in Tompkins County, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at Tompkins County's median home was 2,321 square feet, listed at $201 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 5.7% from February 2024. Listings in Tompkins County moved steadily, at a median 86 days listed compared to the February national median of 66 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 81 days on the market. Around 48 homes were newly listed on the market in February, a 14.3% decrease from 56 new listings in February 2024. The median home prices issued by may exclude many, or even most, of a market's homes. The price and volume represent only single-family homes, condominiums or townhomes. They include existing homes, but exclude most new construction as well as pending and contingent sales. Across the Ithaca metro area, median home prices rose to $450,000, slightly higher than a month earlier. The median home had 2,290 square feet, at a list price of $200 per square foot. In New York, median home prices were $659,974, a slight increase from January. The median New York home listed for sale had 1,559 square feet, with a price of $414 per square foot. Throughout the United States, the median home price was $412,000, a slight increase from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,791 square feet, with a price of $227 per square foot. The median home list price used in this report represents the midway point of all the houses or units listed over the given period of time. Experts say the median offers a more accurate view of what's happening in a market than the average list price, which would mean taking the sum of all listing prices then dividing by the number of homes sold. The average can be skewed by one particularly low or high price. The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Please leave any feedback or corrections for this story here. This story was written by Ozge Terzioglu. This article originally appeared on Ithaca Journal: Tompkins County home listings: Median asking price was up in February
