{"id":969530,"date":"2026-07-30T18:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/969530\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T18:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:01:45","slug":"some-in-hudson-valley-got-a-months-worth-of-rain-in-a-few-hours-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/969530\/","title":{"rendered":"Some in Hudson Valley got a month\u2019s worth of rain in a few hours \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rain totals are in from potent storm system that rotated through the tri-state Tuesday into Wednesday morning, some of them are eye-popping.<\/p>\n<p>New York City didn&#8217;t get walloped, but areas of the Hudson Valley and northern New Jersey, in particular, were hit hard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7-29-precipitation-accumulation.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>One of the highest rain totals was in Cold Spring, in Putnam County, where the town picked up 8.22 inches.\u00a0 Nelsonville and Peekskill, also in the Hudson Valley, collected over 6 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly how impressive are these totals? In a word, very.\u00a0This part of the Hudson Valley picks up an average of 4.3 inches of rain in a typical July. These locations got roughly 1.5 to 2 times that amount in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n<p>Central and northeastern New Jersey got some impressive rain totals, too.\u00a0New Milford and River Edge, both in Bergen County, got over six inches of rain Tuesday afternoon and evening.\u00a0Bergen County averages about 4.5 inches total rainfall in July, which means these places, too, got over a month\u2019s worth of rain within a single day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/City-List-1-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/City-List-2-2.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/City-List-3.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>In Central Jersey, specifically western Hunterdon and southern Warren Counties, there was another bull\u2019s eye of extreme rainfall that measured over 6 inches \u2013 more examples of over a month\u2019s worth of rain in a single event.<\/p>\n<p>These extreme amounts are eye-popping, for sure. But they were very isolated.\u00a0Most of the tri-state area did not get a half foot of rain on Tuesday.\u00a0Rather, 1-3 inches was much more common.\u00a0In and around New York City and eastward toward Long island are good examples of these more moderate totals.<\/p>\n<p>Weather events like this week\u2019s are still relatively rare in the tri-state, but they\u2019re becoming more common thanks to climate change and a warming atmosphere.\u00a0Warm air holds more moisture than cooler air. The added moisture translates to heavier rain and more severe flooding events.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7-29-climate-change-impacts.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rainfall totals across the tri-state<\/p>\n<p>Here are rainfall totals from around the New York City metro area:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/City-List-4.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/City-List-5.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/City-List-6.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/City-List-7.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rain totals are in from potent storm system that rotated through the tri-state Tuesday into Wednesday morning, some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":969531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,9122,5313,9123,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,313],"class_list":["post-969530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-weather","tag-severe-weather","tag-storm-team-4","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117010244019535389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969530","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=969530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}