<p>Rain lashed upon New York's Hudson Valley leading to massive floods that claimed the life of one person. The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings across parts of southeastern New York while describing it to be “life-threatening.” A slow-moving storm led to State Route 9W getting flooded. Parts of the Palisades Interstate Parkway were shut following the massive rainfall, news agency Associated Press cited the New York State Police as saying. The police have asked the public to avoid the said parkway.</p> <p>The storm struck Hudson Valley on Sunday and filled some areas with five to eight inches of rain. As per the New York Times, the epicentre of the storm struck West Point, the U.S. Military Academy in Orange County, which had about eight inches of rain on Sunday night.</p> <p>Ben Noll, a meteorologist at the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, New Zealand, shared a visual from the Hudson Valley and said that as per the radar, nearly 10 inches of rain fell on Monday. Ten inches of rain falls over an entire summer there.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Current scene in West Point, New York / <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HudsonValley?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HudsonValley</a> 🌊<br /><br />The radar estimates that over 10 inches of rain fell today, nearly the amount that typically falls over an entire summer!<br /><br />⚠️ There’s more rain to come…<br /><br />📸 Megan Cardone via a resident of West Point, NY <a href="https://t.co/tLDVttp08p">pic.twitter.com/tLDVttp08p</a></p> — Ben Noll (@BenNollWeather) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenNollWeather/status/1678175059771367426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2023</a></blockquote> <p> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" async="" charset="utf-8"></script> </p> <p> </p>
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