{"id":312135,"date":"2026-08-02T23:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312135\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T23:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:11:19","slug":"heavy-rain-could-bring-flash-flooding-to-nyc-on-monday-nws-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312135\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain could bring flash flooding to NYC on Monday, NWS says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"1l76p\">Heavy rain and thunderstorms are expected to continue across the New York City region Monday, raising the risk of localized <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWS_MountHolly\/status\/2083881585007325342\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">flash flooding<\/a>, the National Weather Service said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"e250v\">The NWS said the heaviest rain could produce rainfall rates of more than an inch per hour, with flooding possible in low-lying areas, places with poor drainage and along small streams. Some storms could also produce damaging wind gusts, the weather service said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"bjigt\">Most of the region is expected to receive between a half-inch and 2 inches of rain, though isolated areas could see significantly higher totals, the NWS said. The Weather Prediction Center placed the region under a slight risk for excessive rainfall, meaning scattered flash flooding is possible.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"a4slh\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/wwamap\/wwatxtget.php?cwa=OKX&amp;wwa=flood%20watch\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Flood Watches<\/a> were also put into effect through Monday evening for much of northeastern and central New Jersey, where the National Weather Service said excessive rainfall could cause flooding.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3bbib\">The wet forecast came on the heels of <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/north-jersey-and-staten-island-took-the-worst-of-the-storms-but-wet-weather-still-ahead\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">last week&#8217;s storms<\/a>, which brought significant flooding to parts of Staten Island, northern New Jersey and the lower Hudson Valley while much of New York City avoided the worst conditions.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5q5v5\">Forecasters urged residents to monitor the latest weather updates and to never drive through flooded roadways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy rain and thunderstorms are expected to continue across the New York City region Monday, raising the risk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-312135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312135","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=312135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}