and now we have ian oliver. he's out on the roof of our studios in tampa. we talk about this storm surge a lot, ian. maybe you can explain it further. >> reporter: this water pushed into the bay and our local rivers. high tide cycle was in the middle part of the afternoon. should be trending towards the low tide between 9:00 and 10:00 tonight. you are look at the low part of the river walk there. hillsboro river was splashing up on the high tide cycle. now the water should be flowing back in the bay. some of that has remained and the water levels haven't dropped a whole lot. that's because of that southwest wind pushing water into the bay. we have some footage from the bay shore which is a usual suspect for flooding. anytime we get a heavy water gets into storm drains, pushes up local rivers. then you get heavy rain on top of those areas and you can't get it out. that's what leads to flash flooding verquickly. our next high tide cycle will occur during the overnight hours tonight. most spots between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m. so that's a time period that we'll be wa

. >> let's get a chick is on our forecast now with ian oliver in the forecast center. >> unfortunately another round like pasco and pinellas county this morning that have seen staggering rainfall tallies over the last few days. this is what it looks like right now new newport ritchie with some sunshine around. you notice the rainfall product, close to an inch and a quarter and some rainfall estimates over the last 24 hours, put down a swath of two to three inch tallies through pasco county down into of pinellas county. our long-term forecast, though, is actually trending drier. we'll talk about the rest of the hole day weekend and get you an update on hermine coming up in a few minutes. >> residents of pasco county spending this holiday week questioned trying to get back to normal. we sent out a crew this morning to see how things are coming along, and residents there community tries to dry out. >> you couldn't see the street, and there was so much water, a garbage truck came down the road, and it created a wake, and it slapped up against the side of my house. >> right now emergency ma

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ian oliver is live from the roof top with a look at what's going on out there. it's getting awfully close to the surface, the river? >> reporter: yeah, there's only a few inches of clearance. you can see the rising hillsborough river. we have seen plenty of high water from excessive rainfall tallies over the last couple day, today and yesterday, sarasota county where we will see 10 inches of rainfall total from hurricane hermine. but now watching especially into the high tide cycle, 2:00, 3:00 a.m., in coastal areas, some of the tidal and surge effects as the national hurricane center predicting about a 2 to 4-foot storm surge from hurricane hermine. and the southwest wind pushes water into the bay, the local waterways and rivers and backs up the storm drain. so when we see the heavier bands moving onshore, it can't communities. so during the overnight hours tonight, that's a period we're watching. we have some video to show you from bay shore boulevard. and now of course this is a typical flooding spot. we look at that every time we get a heavy rainfall event f