Staten Island faces a significant flood threat Tuesday. A slow-moving system is expected to bring multiple rounds of heavy showers and thunderstorms through Wednesday evening, with the potential for life-threatening flash flooding, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch for Staten Island beginning at 8 a.m. Tuesday and continuing through Wednesday evening. <\/p>\n
The Weather Prediction Center has designated a moderate risk \u2014 level three out of four \u2014 for excessive rainfall affecting portions of the area.<\/p>\n
Rainfall totals of two to three inches are forecast on average for the Staten Island and New York City area, with isolated higher amounts possible.<\/p>\n
The heaviest showers and thunderstorms are expected to arrive during the afternoon Tuesday. Peak rainfall rates of up to two to three inches per hour are possible. <\/p>\n
The severe weather threat is expected to lower overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, however.<\/p>\n
Shower chances continue into Thursday as the stalled storm slowly exits the region. Conditions are expected to improve by Friday, with mainly dry weather and only a slight chance of an afternoon shower or thunderstorm. Saturday is forecast to be mainly dry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staten Island faces a significant flood threat Tuesday. A slow-moving system is expected to bring multiple rounds of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-307590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307590","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=307590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}