Torrential downpours unleashed flash flooding around New York City on Monday night as slow-moving thunderstorms wobbled through the tristate area.
Multiple subway stations were inundated, forcing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to suspend or severely delay operations across several lines.
Numerous flash floods were reported across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, closing roads and highways, submerging cars and stranding motorists, the National Weather Service reported.
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Metro-North reported suspensions of service on part of the Harlem line, and some delays on the New Haven line.
Air traffic is also snarled, with more than 1,200 flights canceled across LaGuardia, Newark Liberty, Reagan National, and John F. Kennedy International airports on Monday, data from FlightAware showed.
More than 2 inches (5cm) of rain per hour was recorded at Central Park on Monday night, National Weather Service data showed, before tapering off later in the evening as the heaviest rainfall shifted east and weakened.
New Jersey also got a drenching, recording multiple inches of precipitation on Monday through 11pm.
Earlier, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency due to flash flooding and heavy rainfall, according to a post on X.
“Two to three inches-plus per hour — that is incredible,” Brian Hurley, a senior branch forecaster at the US Weather Prediction Center, said of the rainfall predictions. “The atmosphere is so juicy. There are so many flash flood warnings.”
Flood watches remain in effect for parts of Maryland and Virginia through yesterday morning.
Flash flood warnings were in force for parts of New Jersey through the early hours yesterday.
A large slug of moisture is blanketing the US east coast from Florida to Maine and there was a slight dip in the low-level jet stream that has touched off widespread thunderstorms. To make matters worse, there is not a lot of wind to push the storms along so they are lingering through the afternoon and into the evening, raising the flood risk.
The Passaic River at Pine Brook, New Jersey, is forecast to rise by about a meter by midnight, the National Weather Service said.
The state’s Ramapo River at Mahwah has already risen that high.
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