{"id":108284,"date":"2025-07-31T19:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/108284\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:08:14","slug":"nyc-flood-threat-storms-could-bring-5%e2%80%b3-rain-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/108284\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC flood threat, storms could bring 5\u2033 rain \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to Know<\/p>\n<ul class=\"what-to-know__list\">\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">An approaching cold front is expected to bring torrential rain to a swath of the tri-state area Thursday, prompting serious flash flood concerns in New York and already hard-hit parts of New Jersey<\/li>\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">A widespread 1 to 3 inches of rain is expected, with isolated amounts up to 5 inches or more possible<\/li>\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">The worst weather is likely to hit the metro NYC area during the afternoon rush, which could make the roads and rails especially perilous; mass transit is also likely to have issues<\/li>\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">NYC subways typically start experiencing issues at rainfall rates around one inch an hour. Thursday&#8217;s weather could bring rainfall rates three times that &#8212; and at one of the worst possible times of day<\/li>\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">Plainfield, NJ, where floodwaters swept away vehicles and killed two people just two weeks ago, looks to get hammered again with this storm system; a flood watch is in effect tri-state-wide<\/li>\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">Once the system moves out, we&#8217;re looking at lower humidity and cooler weather for Friday. The weekend also is poised to be picture-perfect<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New York City&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/weather\/weather-stories\/nyc-second-heat-wave-of-summer-storms-relief\/6354054\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> second heat wave <\/a>of summer 2025 is in the books, now attention has turned to Thursday afternoon storms that could wreak flooding havoc, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/weather\/weather-stories\/nyc-flood-warning-how-much-rain-time-start-today\/6355097\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rainfall rates exceeding 2 inches an hour possible at times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the latest developments below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to Know An approaching cold front is expected to bring torrential rain to a swath of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,38598,9122,9123,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-108284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-subway","16":"tag-nyc-weather","17":"tag-storm-team-4","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114949423389834141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}