Hurricane in New York?

This past Friday, on June 17th, New York City was hit with a heavy amount of rain fall that occurred at two separate times. The first storm hit the five boroughs between 4:30 pm and 5:30 pm. Many main roads and side streets were flooded, causing a great deal of traffic in the hours to come. The temperature dropped from 78 degrees throughout the early afternoon to 57 degrees during the thunderstorm.

 

The second storm on that Friday evening did not last as long as the first storm, but was equally as damaging. The second storm only lasted approximately thirty minutes nearly one hour after the original storm, but it continued to flood the streets of New York City. The heavy rainfall caused slight damage to roads in the city, namely in Queens and Brooklyn. The picture below depicts cumulus clouds, which are typically associated with thunderstorms.