As the devastating Hurricane Helene lingers in Tennessee for a few days, it will deliver bouts of rain to the New York City area in two doses. Hurricane Helene made landfall as a dangerous Category four hurricane in the Florida panhandle Thursday night. Since then, AccuWeather reports the deadly storm has claimed the lives of 30 individuals and knocked out power for millions of Americans.
A post shared by AccuWeather (@accuweather) As of Friday afternoon, AccuWeather reports that Helene has downgraded into a tropical depression and lies near the border or Tennessee and Kentucky. “Progressing into early next week, a lack of steering winds in the upper levels of the atmosphere will result in Helene’s lingering moisture to pose a risk for heavy rain and localized flooding across portions of the mid-Atlantic region,” AccuWeather Meteorologist Brandon Buckingham said . While New York City will see nothing compared to the destruction in the South, AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Bob Larson predicts that the five boroughs will in fact receive “fringe effects of the storm” this weekend.
What to expect this weekend Beginning Friday evening, damp conditions will overtake the area and persist through much of the weekend. Despite stalling in Tennessee, the sheer size of the storm is allowing rain to fan out as far as Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and even New York City, according to Larson. An AccuWeather graphic shows forecast conditions in New York resulting from the "fringe effe.