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Currently in Boston — September 29, 2023: Wet weather Friday
Plus, flash flood warning for NYC.
Eric Holthaus & Dave Epstein
September 29, 2023
The weather, currently.
Wet weather Friday
Clouds will take over for Friday and there could be some showers late in the afternoon. We will be on the edge of heavy rain Friday night into the first part of Saturday. Temperatures will be in the '60s on Friday and then Saturday with temperatures also in the '60s. If the weather system comes close enough we could see some downpours overnight Friday and into the first part of Saturday. The best chance of this will be south and west of Boston. Sunshine returns for Sunday with temperatures in the lower 70s for a very nice start to October.
What you need to know, currently.
An extremely heavy rainstorm is forecast for Friday near New York City, with the potential for record-setting rainfall that could create widespread flash flooding.
Heavy rain — 4-6 inches — is expected over a wide swath of metro New Jersey, NYC, the Hudson Valley, and western Connecticut. In an extreme situation — if everything lines up perfectly — some locations in Brookyn, Queens, or Nassau county could get upwards of 6-12” of rain or more. In a worst case scenario, the state’s all-time 24-hour rainfall record could be in jeopardy. (13.57” at Islip on Long Island set on Aug 14, 2014).
Water temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean just off the East Coast have been at record levels all summer, the perfect fuel for excessive rain. And a slow-moving storm system is all it will take for this fuel to turn into a major flood threat.
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