{"id":298824,"date":"2026-07-17T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298824\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:49:10","slug":"dirty-rain-will-dump-toxin-riddled-water-onto-nyc-but-theres-an-upside-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298824\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty rain will dump toxin-riddled water onto NYC \u2014 but there’s an upside: experts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toxin-riddled \u201cdirty rain\u201d will pour on the Big Apple on Saturday \u2014 but at least it will be quick and flush out the unhealthy haze that wafted in<\/a> from the Canadian wildfires, experts say.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of smoke and particulate matter in the air, so as we get rainfall, those water droplets are going to pick up some soot, some ash, and bring that to the ground,\u201d AccuWeather\u2019s Senior Meterologist John Feerick told The Post on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt least initially, you\u2019re probably gonna have a little bit of dirty spots or soot on cars and stuff like that.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s rainfall could clear out the smoke-filled air. Brian Zak\/NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s going to be relatively short-lived,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cThe heavy downpours that we get will just wash that away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Feerick said the dirty rain is actually less concerning than the intensity of the summer storm initially bringing it to the area.<\/p>\n

Thunderstorms and damaging winds are forecast till Saturday night \u2014 with some gusts reaching as high as 65 mph.<\/p>\n

The rain will fall as much as 2 inches per hour.<\/p>\n

The dirty precipitation will briefly cover cars and the street in soot. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cThe greater concern is going to be flooding downpours, localized flash flooding,\u2019\u2019 the meteorologist said.<\/p>\n

\u201cStreets in New York \u2014 you know how they get as far as streets filling up with water pretty fast.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The storm is set to roll through the five boroughs in the mid- to late-morning Saturday \u2014 when the air quality is expected to spike<\/a> close to \u201cvery unhealthy\u201d levels.<\/p>\n

Sunday is forecasted to have cleaner air and sunny skies. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The precipitation, having been hovering in the toxic air, will drag down <\/a>the dust, soot, metals and other minuscule toxins that traveled hundreds of miles from the Canadian wildfires to the metro area.<\/p>\n

The initial rain will leave dirty remnants along the streets and cars, but the following rounds of rain will quickly wash the filth away, Feerick said.<\/p>\n

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The wet, damp front will move out of the Big Apple on Saturday night, and the humidity will plummet by Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Sunshine is also predicted for the tail end of the weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t look like we\u2019ll have the air quality issues that we\u2019ve had,\u2019\u2019 Feerick said. \u201cIt looks like Sunday is going to be a pretty nice finish to the weekend.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toxin-riddled \u201cdirty rain\u201d will pour on the Big Apple on Saturday \u2014 but at least it will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[40096,65486,20233,57,9,197,56,63,65,64,603,58,25998],"class_list":["post-298824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-accuweather","tag-air","tag-forecast","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-life","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-rain","tag-us-news","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298824","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=298824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}