{"id":264266,"date":"2026-06-12T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264266\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:59:08","slug":"storm-puts-on-dramatic-lightning-show-over-nyc-skyline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264266\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Puts on Dramatic Lightning Show Over NYC Skyline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Severe thunderstorms hit parts of <a data-ylk=\"slk:New Jersey;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSNewYorkNY\/status\/2065249125583442271\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey<\/a> and New York City on Thursday evening, June 11, producing dramatic mesmerizing lightning displays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage, captured from north Brooklyn, shows a large storm over northern New Jersey, a few miles to the east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The same <a data-ylk=\"slk:system;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSNewYorkNY\/status\/2065224498836656374\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">system<\/a> eventually <a data-ylk=\"slk:reached New York City;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSNewYorkNY\/status\/2065279542546038796\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reached New York City<\/a>, bringing brief but torrential rain showers and high winds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The storms came amid sweltering heat in New York City, with temperatures around 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius) and high humidity continuing into late evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The hot and humid weather would continue on Friday, with the heat hitting around 100 degrees in the afternoon, the National Weather Service <a data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NWSNewYorkNY\/posts\/pfbid036W27Y8JmS3VtB6nXqoKx7buvzdUqtzGvvXohrKCGMrRJZRZrFD9HyYXGePuim6rzl\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. There would also be a slight risk of thunderstorms and flash flooding, they added. Credit: Rob McDonagh via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorms hit parts of New Jersey and New York City on Thursday evening, June 11, producing dramatic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1066,9,24,36288,56,63,65,64,79546],"class_list":["post-264266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-northern-new-jersey","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-severe-thunderstorms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}