{"id":330775,"date":"2026-08-27T03:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330775\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T03:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:40:20","slug":"flood-watch-issued-for-nyc-li-and-nj-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330775\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood watch issued for NYC, LI and NJ: Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) \u2014 A flood watch was issued for all of New York City, Long Island and parts of New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service said the flood watch will be in effect from noon until the evening Thursday for the tri-state area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Stay connected with community stories that matter: Visit our homepage;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:\/\/pix11.com\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Stay connected with community stories that matter: Visit our homepage\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Excessive rainfall is possible in all five boroughs, Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Westchester, Orange, Putnam and Rockland Counties, as well as Bergen, Passaic, Union, Essex and Hudson Counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The NWS forecasts total rainfall should come in at around 1.5 inches, but could be as much as 3 inches at a rapid rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There is potential for flood warnings to be issued as the weather shifts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spencer Gustafson is a digital content producer from Long Island who has covered New York state and city news since 2023. See more of his work <a data-ylk=\"slk:here;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:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/spencer-gustafson\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;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:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) \u2014 A flood watch was issued for all of New York City, Long Island&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[124521,109996,124520,534,9,56,63,65,64,124522,124519,37527,2459],"class_list":["post-330775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-excessive-rainfall","tag-flood-watch","tag-hudson-counties","tag-national-weather-service","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-parts-of-new-jersey","tag-rockland-counties","tag-suffolk-counties","tag-tri-state-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330775","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=330775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}