{"id":345078,"date":"2026-09-12T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345078\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:30:09","slug":"flood-watch-for-nyc-and-nj-expect-a-soggy-saturday-night-sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345078\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood watch for NYC and NJ: Expect a soggy Saturday night, Sunday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"u27k7\">New York City is headed into a soggy Saturday night and Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"btia1\">A flood watch is in effect for the city, northeast New Jersey and the southern Westchester County area from 2 a.m. to 10 a.m. Sunday. The city\u2019s emergency management office said brief downpours of 1 to 2 inches an hour are possible. <\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"225vu\">Most of the city should see about 1 to 2 inches of rain in total, but some areas could be hit harder \u2014 in particular, eastern Brooklyn and Queens, according to city alerts. <\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"74gu\">And other areas around the city might see more rain: The National Weather Service said parts of Long Island could see more than 2 inches an hour as well, and northeast New Jersey could see 1.5-2 inches an hour.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"63ld0\">The city urged that if you\u2019re in a home that floods often, to know your exits and be ready to move to higher floors when heavy rain begins. Residents who use the <a href=\"http:\/\/nyc.gov\/notify\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Notify NYC<\/a> app can also select the basement apartment option to get automated phone calls during flooding.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"c090a\">Things should start getting sunnier by Monday, with highs in the upper 70s and lows in the mid-50s. The National Weather Service is expecting mostly clear skies through the rest of the week as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City is headed into a soggy Saturday night and Sunday morning. A flood watch is in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-345078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345078","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=345078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}