One place got over 10 inches of rain and the temperature never broke 70...
It's amazing that the subways even ran on Sunday. Oddly enough, it wasn't the tunnels that were the problem for the most part, the elevated lines (especially by the Atlantic Ocean) fared worse.Heavy rain and flooding Sunday has caused power outages, train service disruptions and has stranded motorists throughout the area. So much rain has fallen that New York City set a record for rainfall on Sunday.John F. Kennedy International Airport reported 7.72 inches Sunday night — the most ever recorded there in a single day. The driving rain broke the previous record of 6.3 inches, set in 1983, the National Weather Service said.
The highest total regionally was recorded at Lido Beach in Nassau County — 10.87 inches of rain by dusk.
Rainfall record broken Sunday.
It was raining into the evening, so the 7.6 inches was probably even higher by midnight.