STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Heavy rain deluged New York City with flooding to end last month, topping-off a historic stretch that made it the wettest September in parts of the five boroughs, the National Weather Service said.
Precipitation totals surpassed a foot in three of the National Weather Service’s climate sites, including in Central Park, where 14.25 inches of rainfall was recorded, making it the wettest September in 141 years and the second wettest since 1869.
John F. Kennedy and Laguardia Airports had their wettest Septembers on record, reaching 13.01 inches and 12.76 inches of rainfall, respectively. Both sites observed at least at east 329% of normal precipitation for the month.
Meanwhile, Newark Liberty International Airport and the National Weather Service sites in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Islip, New York, experienced, at least, their seventh-wettest Septembers.
Dangerous flooding spread across New York City Friday, reaching nearly 9 inches in parts of Queens, where the storm hit the hardest. Mayor Eric Adams was criticized for a slow response to the storm, raising old concerns the five boroughs are unprepared to deal with the impacts of climate change.
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