Rain amounts new york

The torrential rains on Wednesday that deluged New York and New Jersey , killing more than three dozen, carried a stark warning about climate change: As the planet gets hotter, heavy rainstorms are dumping more water than ever before, threatening to devastate unprepared cities. Climate scientists have long predicted that global warming would make certain parts of the world wetter overall, in part because a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture. But simply looking at global averages can obscure a more important reality: The heaviest rainstorms are now more intense and can produce vastly more rainfall in short periods of time.

Those extreme events are what can drive catastrophic flooding. Between 8 p. Severe thunderstorms led to a one-hour precipitation total of 2. Ida also produced the seventh-highest hourly rainfall, dropping 1. The sudden burst of rain paralyzed the city, with cascades of water pouring into subway stations and shutting down much of the system for hours.

In the Northeast, the strongest 1 percent of storms now produce 55 percent more rainfall than they did in the middle of the 20th century. Dai said. Other parts of the world are also struggling with increasingly vicious downpours.

In July, unusually heavy rains in Germany and Belgium caused rivers to burst their banks, washing away buildings and killing more than people. While scientists cannot always predict exactly when and where such rainstorms will occur, they understand how global warming is making them stronger. The following warnings have been issued by the National Weather Service :. Rounds of rain will rotate through the region into tomorrow as Henri slows to a halt just to our north. Flash flooding is already occurring in parts of the area with an additional several inches possible when all is said and done.

Stay safe and turn around, don't drown! How much to expect in each region. After Tesla deal, Hertz will add Superchargers to some Valley locations. Democrats say GOP lawmakers implicated in Jan. Cuomo warns of Henri's heavy rain in Catskills, Hudson Valley. Click to expand. Replay Video. Ad Microsoft. Full screen. A woman walks her dogs the morning after heavy rain from Tropical Storm Henri caused a tree to uproot across Mountain Ave in Ridgewood, N.

The morning after the storm, the tree is still across the home Monday morning. Slideshow continues on the next slide. Ryan Bachus, who drove seventeen hours from Tennessee with his colleagues from Wolf Tree to offer assistance, cuts down a tree that fell on Burns Street in New Bedford, Mass.

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