Tag: Heavy rain in New York metropolitan area

Rain walloped the New York metropolitan area with a startling punch on Friday, knocking out several subway and commuter rail lines, stranding drivers on highways, flooding basements and shuttering a terminal at LaGuardia Airport for hours in one of the city's wettest days in decades. More than 7.25 inches (18.41 centimetres) of rain had fallen in parts of Brooklyn by nightfall, with at least one spot seeing 2.5 inches (6 centimetres) in a single hour, according to weather and city officials. The 8.65 inches (21.97 centimetres) at...