From Article: New York broke an all-time record for a one-day rainfall Sunday as up to 8 inches of water soaked the city, snarling trains and flooding roadways.
By 9 p.m., 7.7 inches of rain had fallen at Kennedy Airport.
It was the most recorded there in a single day since the National Weather Service began keeping records 116 years ago.
PHOTOS: New York City drenched by record rainfall
The heavy tropical rain is expected to continue Monday, and a flash flood warning is in effect until 9 p.m.
The normal rainfall for all of August in New York is 4 inches - which means the city was socked with two months worth of rain in a single day.
"This is what you would expect in a major hurricane," said Steve Wistar, senior meteorologist at AccuWeather.
Kennedy Airport's old one-day rainfall record, 6.3 inches, set on June 30, 1984, fell by noon.
Central Park, where the city's official rainfall total is recorded, saw 5.8 inches by 10:45 p.m., making it the fifth-wettest day of all time there.
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