![]() Nearly 170,000 electricity customers were without power on Thursday in the four northeastern states that got the bulk of the rain overnight, mostly in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, according to PowerOutage.US, which gathers data from utility companies. The 47th annual Macys Fourth of July Fireworks Show lit up the skies over the East River on Tuesday night. When he made it home, he found almost 2 feet of water in his basement. NYC public school nurses receiving Narcan. "When we got out, it was a war zone," said Haley, 50, a fitness trainer. Mark Haley of Summit, New Jersey, said getting home after a 15-minute drive to a bowling alley to celebrate his daughter's sixth birthday on Wednesday night became a six-hour slog through floodwaters that frequently blocked his route. About 370 flights were canceled at New Jersey's Newark Liberty Airport. Subway services in New York City remained "extremely limited," transit officials said, and commuter rail services to the suburbs were largely suspended. "Right now my street looks more like a lake," said Lucinda Mercer, 64, as she peered out her apartment window in Hoboken, New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from New York. ![]() The governors of New York and New Jersey urged residents to stay home as crews worked to clear roadways and restore service to subways and commuter rail lines serving millions of residents. The number of disasters, such as floods and heat waves, driven by climate change has increased fivefold over the past 50 years, according to a report released earlier this week by the World Meteorological Organization, a U.N. "Because of climate change, unfortunately, this is something we're going to have to deal with great regularity," said Kathy Hochul, New York's newly inaugurated governor. New York officials blamed much of flooding on the high volume of rainfall in a short span of time, rather than the daily total, which was within predictions. White Plains Airport 6.Ida's remnants brought 6 to 8 inches (15 to 20 cm) of rain to a swath of the Northeast from Philadelphia to Connecticut and set an hourly rainfall record of 3.15 inches for Manhattan, breaking one set by Tropical Storm Henri less than two weeks ago, the National Weather Service said. Westhampton Airport 1.73 in 0553 AM 09/02 ASOSġ N Mount Kisco 8.46 in 0400 AM 09/02 Public Updated 2 seconds of 1 minute, 25 secondsVolume 0 00:13 01:25 Dozens of people were killed across New York and New Jersey including a 2-year-old boy and his parents who drowned in a basement. Upton 2.40 in 0800 AM 09/02 Official NWS Obsįarmingdale Airport 2.01 in 0553 AM 09/02 ASOS Montauk Airport 3.20 in 0554 AM 09/02 ASOS Kew Garden Hills 5.77 in 0625 AM 09/02 NYSM Montgomery Airport 5.65 in 0554 AM 09/02 AWOS Midtown Manhattan 7.49 in 0625 AM 09/02 NYSM North Massapequa 2.48 in 0606 AM 09/02 CWOP West Milford 3.48 in 0545 AM 09/02 IFLOWS New York City had its official heat wave of the summer last. Hasbrouck Heights 8.01 in 0609 AM 09/02 CWOPĮssex Fells 7.08 in 0600 AM 09/02 UnknownĠ.6 SW Caldwell 6.64 in 0545 AM 09/02 IFLOWS New York Citys average number of days above 90 degrees in July is 11, five days more than the current total this year. Groton Airport 3.64 in 0556 AM 09/02 ASOS ![]() New Haven Airport 4.53 in 0553 AM 09/02 ASOSĢ N Ledyard Center 6.45 in 0615 AM 09/02 Cocorahs Meriden Airport 4.96 in 0553 AM 09/02 ASOS Guilford 5.55 in 0700 AM 09/02 CO-OP Observer ![]() Nearly all of that fell within just 3 hours.Ĭhester Center 2.7 WNW 6.46 in 0636 AM 09/02 COCORAHS This is a new record for the wettest hour in Central Park. Newark Airport reported 3.24 inches of rain from 8 to 9 p.m.ģ.15 inches of rain in just one hour at Central Park from 8:50 to 9:50 p.m. Rainfall rates of 3 to 5 inches have been recorded in Northeast New Jersey and portions of NYC. The flooding was so bad that the National Weather Service in New York issued a Flash Flood Emergency, the highest flash flood threat level, for all five boroughs of New York City and North Jersey for the first time ever. The remnants from what was once Hurricane Ida interacted with a frontal system and unleashed record amounts of rain across the region. ![]() New York (WABC) - New York and New Jersey were hit with catastrophic flash flooding Wednesday evening that continued into Thursday, with water rescues, roads, homes and cars under feet of water, transportation stalled, people stranded on roofs of cars and more. Sam Champion explains the historic rain totals across the Tri-State area. ![]()
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