{"id":334428,"date":"2026-09-01T02:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334428\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T02:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:26:35","slug":"nyc-flash-floods-damaging-winds-possible-over-three-day-stretch-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334428\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC flash floods, damaging winds possible over three-day stretch \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The days leading into Labor Day Weekend promise to be unsettled around the tri-state, with multiple rounds of strong-to-severe storms set to slice through the region from Tuesday to Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image_5d31df.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>A front will meander over the area and serve as the focal point for storms, the strongest of which could turn severe.\u00a0The threats will run the gamut from damaging straight-line winds to isolated flash flooding, hail. and even a tornado or two.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image_46b1fd.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Areas west of the Hudson River are most at risk for severe weather. Each day, storms will develop over Western New York and track southeast, eventually moving through the Poconos, Catskills, and into Northern New Jersey and the Hudson Valley before reaching the NYC metro area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image_759686.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Isolated flash flooding will be possible each day, with the greatest threat coming on Wednesday.\u00a0 Most areas will see manageable rainfall rates, but the strongest cells could generate rainfall at 2 inches per hour or more, which can lead to flash flooding in low-lying or poor-drainage areas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image_208506.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Overall rain totals over the three days will be less than an inch for most of us.\u00a0Only isolated locations will get more than that and face potential flooding.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image_2df7ac.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>The rain will come in waves this week, so don\u2019t expect all-day washouts. There will be plenty of dry time in between.<\/p>\n<p>The most difficult aspect of the forecast is narrowing down the timing of the waves.\u00a0 The disturbances associated with weather patterns like this week\u2019s are notoriously difficult to pinpoint from a timing perspective, so expect frequent adjustments to the forecast as new information comes in.<\/p>\n<p>The front that will serve as the focus for storms this week stays overhead through Thursday. It will finally sag south as a cold front on Friday, pushing the storm threat to our south, too.\u00a0For the northeast, that means cooler, drier, and quieter weather beginning Friday and continuing into Labor Day Weekend<\/p>\n<p>Also, due to the uncertainty in rain timing this week, now is a good time to download the NBC New York app to your phone and turn on weather alerts.\u00a0You\u2019ll have live radar in the palm of your hands and we\u2019ll notify you of any severe weather that impacts where you are at any time.\u00a0 There\u2019s no better way to stay ahead of the storms.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image_d68456.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The days leading into Labor Day Weekend promise to be unsettled around the tri-state, with multiple rounds of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50,335,806,336,133],"class_list":["post-334428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-nyc-weather","tag-severe-weather","tag-storm-team-4","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334428","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=334428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}