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Latest developments as New York City recovers from flash floods after historic rainfall sparked state of emergency
On September 29, 2023, heavy rainfall led to flooding across portions of the New York metropolitan area and surrounding areas in the United States. The floods were caused by a low-pressure area that had absorbed the remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia, which then stalled over the New York City area.
The latest storm will unload a swath of 2-4 inches of rain across the region, with localized pockets of higher amounts. A small pocket where 4-8 inches of rain is in store and most likely to fall ...
Fed by warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Milton became the third-fastest intensifying storm on record in the Atlantic Ocean, the Hurricane Center said, as it surged from a tropical storm to a ...
An unpredictable rainstorm in New York City on Sunday put the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and the east side of Manhattan under a flood warning and pushed Gov. Hochul to urge New Yorkers to stay off roads.
June 22, 1972: Hurricane Agnes makes landfall near New York City and produces up to 12 inches (300 mm) of rain in Southeastern New York State and much of Western New York, with locally higher amounts. Storm tides of 3.1 feet (1 m) and wind gusts of 55 miles per hour (89 km/h) occur in New York City, and severe river flooding causes 24 deaths.
One man drowned at a marina in City Island in the Bronx, New York City while checking on his boat during the storm, [24] [25] while just north of New York City, one person was killed when an inflatable boat capsized on the Croton River. [24] Two baseball games between the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves were postponed due to the effects of the ...
A new storm is taking shape just off the mid-Atlantic and southern New England coasts and will bring rain to part of the Northeast with the risk of localized flooding into Friday, AccuWeather ...