STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — At this point, it just seems like Mother Nature doesn’t want anyone in New York City to enjoy a nice fall outing.
This past Saturday’s storm marked the seventh consecutive week that Staten Island received rainfall on at least one day of the weekend.
Those long-anticipated apple picking plans? Rain checked. A festive family trip to a local farm? Pushed back (again).
As of Oct. 16, it had rained 10 of the last 12 weekend days in Manhattan’s Central Park. Data from AccuWeather shows measured rainfall amounts from Central Park for a handful of recent weeks — the weekend of Sept. 9-10 being the first to kickstart the streak. Weekend total amounts for Central Park varied, with the weekend of Sept. 23-24 receiving 2.21 inches, while the weekend of Sept. 30-Oct.1 only measured 0.04 inches. Yet even then, Friday, Sept. 29 brought a torrential downpour that flooded streets across the city.
Here on Staten Island, the rainfall figures reflect the same trend.
If we look back across the past couple months we see a consistent pattern of rain that dates back to early September. According to the Advance/SILive.com weather station, the last fully dry weekend that Staten Islanders got to enjoy was Sept. 2-3 — and even the weekend before that bore more than half an inch of rain.
Even summer in New York City was characterized by rain, with AccuWeather reporting that it rained on 50% of the weekends in August and four of the five weekends in July. According to AccuWeather’s Oct. 16 report, since July 1, New York City and Boston have both received approximately 175% of their historical average rainfall.
WHEN WILL IT END?
Despite the continuous weekend showers seeming rather unusual, even for chance, the consistent pattern is just that, a pattern.
“We get locked into a certain pattern and storms just keep coming once a week,” said Bill Goodman, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “That’s just the pattern that we’re in right now, it…
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