Flooding in New York City by Elizabeth Saary
Overnight rain flooded highways and local roads in Westchester County north of New York City, and in northern New Jersey, as ‘spring showers’ moved across the region.
The National Weather Service (NWS) say the storm spilled about 80 mm (3 inches) of rain on New York City. One car was immersed in water up to its bumper on the Bronx River Parkway.
A similar amount or more may fall on Saturday as showers linger over the area.
The rain may push this month to the wettest April on record for New York’s Central Park. The park has received 280 mm (11 inches) of rain so far this month, just shy of the record 356 mm (14 inches) that fell in April 1983, according to NWS data.
The rainfall is part of a larger storm that swept through the Midwest and into the Ohio Valley earlier this week, causing damage in four states, and killing at least nine people.
The potent storm has been crawling across the nation since last weekend and has spawned dozens of tornadoes, including one that picked up a sheriff’s patrol car in Illinois, and flipped it over a fence. The system is expected to move out of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast this weekend and wind down.
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