Floods caused by torrential rains in New York and New Jersey

The question of adapting urban areas to extreme climatic events is again raised. Similarly, Important floods hit the New York region. Moreover, New Jersey State on Monday, 14 to floods caused torrential rains new Tuesday, July 15, following the torrential rains caused by a stationary storm system.

Meteorological services have recorded accumulation of exceptional precipitation, causing significant disruption in transport and several rescue operations.

Tuesday. Meanwhile, Wednesday, “A mass of summer air rich in humidity on a large part of the East and the center of the United States will continue to give rise to scattered or generalized thunderstorms that can produce strong showers and sudden floods”said the National Weather Service (NWS) in its forecasts.

The majority of the next thunderstorms will occur on Tuesday in Virginia. For example, North Carolina, then they will progress to the north, reaching on Wednesday an area including Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, specifies their bulletin.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said the state of emergency in several counties, calling on residents to stay at home. Meanwhile, The authorities floods caused torrential rains new warned against dangerous traffic conditions and increased risks of sudden floods in densely populated urban areas.

Interrupted lines and flooded stations

JFK, Laguardia and Newark airports have temporarily suspended departures. Meanwhile, The New York metro was also strongly disrupted. Similarly, with several interrupted lines and flooded stations, notably in Chelsea and in southern Manhattan. In addition, Massive traffic jams have paralyzed several main arteries of the city.

In New Jersey. the emergency services intervened many occasions to help blocked motorists or residents isolated by the rise of waters, especially in the Newark region. The northern state is still on flood alert until 7:15 am (1:15 p.m. time in Paris), warned the NWS.

Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania were also affected. A sudden flood alert was still underway in the center of Virginia on Tuesday, according to the NWS. No victim has been reported at this stage by local authorities.

According to weather services, some New York districts received between 38 millimeters and 45 millimeters of rain in less than two hours. In New Jersey, the cumulators have locally reached 150 millimeters. The saturation of soils and floods caused torrential rains new drainage networks has contributed to aggravating overflows.

The strongest rains shifted east on Tuesday. but the authorities call for vigilance, certain roads remaining impractical and the transport networks being still partially disturbed. Rehabilitation work is underway.

Zohran Mamdani. Democratic candidate for New York town hall, said on social network X that city infrastructure should be modernized to cope with “This new climate reality”.