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Severe thunderstorms flooded the city of New York Monday night, bringing with them a flood of rain.
The storms dissolved in a stubborn group that parked above the city at the height of Monday night's shifts, dropping nearly two inches of rain. The rising waters encircled the cars in traffic jams and ended up in the subway.
The National Meteorological Service has published a warning of flood in New York City and neighboring New Jersey, where "many water-clean road closures" have been reported in East Newark.
The Brooklyn video showed roads turned into rivers with partially submerged cars.
Central Park received 1.66 inches of rain and JFK airport, 1.59 inches, while the storms held the temperature at 87 degrees after the two weekend days reached 99 degrees. La Guardia Airport took 1.24 inches, a welcome relief from Sunday's triple-digit heat.
It was just the round aperitif, though. Another series of frontal showers and heavier storms swept away Tuesday morning.
"We had a lot of 24-hour rainfall reaching up to 3½ inches," said Tim Morrin, program manager at the National Weather Service in New York. "The second batch was not big storms, but we had impressive rainfall rates."
On Tuesday, at 10 o'clock, JFK had recorded a total rain of 3.52 inches over 24 hours. Their normal total for July is just over 4.08 inches. Staten Island measured 3.05 inches, while a total of 3.94 fell at Syosset on Long Island. A new flash flood warning was issued at 05:03 – just at the beginning of the morning commute.
"Some pretty important arteries have been closed this morning, like the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn," said Morrin. "However, most of the rain fell to the east in the middle of the morning, but some more showers are possible later."
It's not just the heavy rain that has targeted the Big Apple. The storms also caused bad weather, including a bullet-sized hail in Bergen County, New Jersey. In the night, a 75mph gust shook West Gilgo Beach, New York, under the sign of a Long Island shoreline.
More than 800,000 customers were without electricity Monday in the eastern United States because of storms, with New Jersey contributing nearly half to this figure.
Lightning tone badociated with storms New York – Long Island tonight. Up to 1357 strikes within a radius of 30 miles. pic.twitter.com/ZmkKVCry4m
– Michael Ventrice (@MJVentrice) July 22, 2019
This is the second time in just one week that impressive floods are needed in the tri-state region: 2.67 inches fell last Wednesday, part of the same soggy pattern that rained down a few parts of New York City on last month.
Summer floods have increased in New York in recent years. Aging infrastructure, coupled with heavy and increasing rainfall, has regularly contributed to urban flooding in the city.
Over the past 60 years, average summer precipitation has increased by 2½ inches in New York. In addition, the number of days of rainfall reaching 2 inches has doubled in New York over the last hundred years. In an increasingly hot and humid world, such events may well become the new norm.
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