Heavy Showers Will Wash Out the Few Remaining Days in September

NEW YORK, NY — Hopefully you didn't have plans for the end of the month, because it's supposed to rain straight through from Wednesday night to early Monday.

According to the National Weather Service (NWS), a front is moving through beginning Sept. 28 and it will dump heavy rain on New York City on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Clouds will increase Wednesday night with light rain beginning after 8 p.m. Light rain will continue throughout the day on Thursday with rainfall of about a quarter of an inch. But then the rough stuff comes in overnight Thursday into Friday.

The NWS reports the heaviest rain is supposed to start falling at about 7 p.m. on Thursday, with a chance of precipitation at 80 percent beginning at 2 a.m. on Friday. Overnight Thursday into Friday you can expect more than a half inch of rain. And that will keep up for the next two days with about a half of an inch falling during the day on Friday and another half inch falling throughout the day on Saturday.

Light rain will fall on Sunday with showers tapering off at 4 a.m. on Monday — just before commuters are ready to go back to work.

All told, the city is expecting about 1.75 inches of rain over the four days. New York City has only received a total of 2.3 inches of rain in the past month, and haven't seen this much rain in a single stormfront since the last three days of July.

The good news, if you consider it good news, is there are not expected to be any thunderstorms.

Philadelphia is expecting about four inches of rain to fall this weekend, and nearly eight inches could fall near Washington, D.C.

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