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Flood watch for NYC and NJ: Expect a soggy Saturday night, Sunday morning
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Louis C. Hochman
Published Sep 12, 2026
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New York City is headed into a soggy Saturday night and Sunday morning.
A flood watch is in effect for the city, northeast New Jersey and the southern Westchester County area from 2 to 10 a.m. Sunday. The city’s emergency management office said brief downpours of 1 to 2 inches an hour are possible.
Most of the city should see about 1 to 2 inches of rain in total, but some areas could be hit harder — in particular, eastern Brooklyn and Queens, according to city alerts.
And other areas around the city might see more rain: The National Weather Service said parts of Long Island could see more than 2 inches an hour as well, and northeast New Jersey could see 1.5-2 inches an hour.
The city urged that if you’re in a home that floods often, to know your exits and be ready to move to higher floors when heavy rain begins. Residents who use the Notify NYC app can also select the basement apartment option to get automated phone calls during flooding.
Things should start getting sunnier by Monday, with highs in the upper 70s and lows in the mid-50s. The National Weather Service is expecting mostly clear skies through the rest of the week as well.
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Louis C. Hochman
After about two decades in (mostly) New Jersey-focused commercial print, digital and digital-but-radio-adjacent news, Lou stumbled into member-supported news in early 2021, as the editor and CEO of Montclair Local. There, he (hopes he) expanded enterprise, brought more sophistication to digital storytelling and moved the nonprofit newsroom closer to long-term financial sustainability. He helped lead the Local to its fourth consecutive General Excellence award from the New Jersey Press Association — the NJPA's highest honor with judges noting the paper's work to strip away layers of government opacity, to hold power to account, to make news accessible for more members of the community, to share the stories and concerns of more facets of the community and to tell compelling stories across multiple media. He's excited to continue the same ethic — news as a public service — at NYPR as the New Jersey and suburbs editor, drawing on the extraordinary talents of reporters including Karen Yi and Nancy Solomon. Lou lives in Philly (that commute!) with his partner and their two cats, about whom and about which he speaks incessantly.
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