The impression that it rained in New York this summer is now confirmed in the definitive data. Between June and August in Central Park fell 16.92 inches of rain, almost 43 cm, making the summer of 2026 the most rainy in the city of the last five years.
According to the National Weather Service data, the total was about 3.5 inches, almost 9 inches, higher than the average period. Overall it rained in about 40 percent of the days between June and August.
The month he contributed most was August. In Central Park, 8.64 inches of rain were measured, almost 22 centimetres, 4.08 inches more than the norm of the month. In practice, in August it fell alone more than half of the rain recorded throughout the summer.
June had begun very differently, with conditions still relatively dry after a drought period. The situation has changed during the summer, with a succession of intense storms that has affected the five boroughs several times.
The consequences were particularly visible in Queens. During the three months the borough was affected by 13 Flash Flood Warnings and 12 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings, as well as a Tornado Warning. Very intense rainfalls in short intervals have caused on several occasions flooding of roads and problems to circulation.
It was not only a rainy summer. New York also recorded very intense heat periods and in Central Park the temperature reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit, about 38 degrees Celsius, for the first time since 2012.
The result was therefore a meteorologically unusual quarter for different reasons. But on the front of the rainfall the comparison is clearly: it is necessary to return to the summer of 2021 to find in New York a total of rain greater than that recorded this year.
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