3.15" Of Rain In One Hour In Central Park; 7.2" Of Rain In Newark (Record) As Airport Floods
The remnants of Hurricane Ida unloaded a historic deluge in New York City and the surrounding area on Wednesday night, triggering states of emergencies in New York and New Jersey and leading to at least eight deaths. The torrent left New York City at a standstill, with most subway lines shut down and a citywide travel ban prohibiting all non-emergency vehicles from roads until 5 a.m. Nearly 250,000 people in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey were without power as of early Thursday.
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At least 7.2 inches of rain fell in Newark on Wednesday, its wettest day in 90 years of record-keeping, according to Greg Diamond, a meteorologist for FOX Weather. The city saw a record 3.24 inches of rain, a phenomenon that is expected to occur only once every 200 to 500 years, Diamond said. At Newark Liberty International Airport, flights were delayed, diverted and canceled, leading to exasperation from passengers. “You can sense how annoyed people are, and I’m hearing a lot of sighs and frustrated conversation,” Austin Rutland, whose 11 p.m. flight to Paris was delayed, told The Post early Thursday.
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The downpour in New York City caused at least two partial building collapses in Queens late Wednesday. In the Ridgewood neighborhood, 12 FDNY units also responded to a single-story storefront at about 10:15 p.m. after the Fire Department received reports of a roof collapse. After the other partial collapse in Jamaica, Queens, that killed two people, several units remained at the scene in the early hours on Thursday, according to Gilbert Dofredo, who lives two houses down from that home. Dofredo, 80, did not see the collapse but told The Washington Post the whole street is flooded and at least a dozen homes have water in their basements. He said the water is knee-high in his home.
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In the past two weeks, New York City has had three of its top 20 heaviest one-hour downpours on record; four of the top 20 have come this year. On Aug. 21, it received 1.69 and 1.84 inches in back-to-back hours. Another top-20 one-hour rainfall occurred on July 8, when 1.54 inches fell in a single hour.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/09/01/new-york-city-flash-flood/