{"id":299203,"date":"2026-07-18T01:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299203\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T01:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:27:14","slug":"severe-thunderstorms-flood-watch-in-store-for-nyc-this-weekend-forecast-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299203\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorms, flood watch in store for NYC this weekend: Forecast latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service is reporting that New York City is under threat of severe thunderstorms this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thunderstorms this coming weekend could have wind gusts up to nearly 60 miles per hour, as well as the possibility of an isolated tornado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Heavy rainfall may also lead to flash flooding for the metro area, as well as Long Island and portions of New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK &#8211; The National Weather Service is reporting that New York City is under threat of severe thunderstorms this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Severe thunderstorms, flash flooding<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thunderstorms this coming weekend could have wind gusts up to nearly 60 miles per hour, as well as the possibility of an isolated tornado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Heavy rainfall may also lead to flash flooding for the metro area, as well as Long Island and portions of New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/wnyw_fox_local_articles_540\/f72eacccac2ff0c94c2a04298d16d1da.jpeg\"\/>Poor air quality in NYC<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The rainfall this weekend is expected to help <a data-ylk=\"slk:thin out the wildfire smoke;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.fox5ny.com\/news\/canadian-wildfire-smoke-nyc-forecast-when-will-smoke-leave\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">thin out the wildfire smoke<\/a> currently plaguing the Northeast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article includes information provided by the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief The National Weather Service is reporting that New York City is under threat of severe thunderstorms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15353,64300,113746,534,9,24,56,63,65,64,79546,33],"class_list":["post-299203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-flash-flooding","tag-heavy-rainfall","tag-isolated-tornado","tag-national-weather-service","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-severe-thunderstorms","tag-wind-gusts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299203","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=299203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}