More than an inch of rain drenched parts of the Big Apple, leaving streets in Queens underwater.
New York City got socked by nearly 1.3 inches of rain Friday night into Saturday morning as temperatures peaked in the mid-50s.
While sections of Howard Beach were left with roughly two feet of water covering the streets, making travel difficult, a blizzard upstate is making life miserable.
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Saturday that Sunday’s Steelers-Bills game will be rescheduled for 4:30 p.m. Monday, as the possibility of two to three inches of snow per hour and heavy winds in Buffalo this weekend.
The game was supposed to begin Sunday at 1 p.m., which Hochul said is expected to be the heart of the storm.
Temperatures in the five boroughs are expected to drop into the 20s and 30s in the coming days, and might even bring some snow — but NYC will be spared brutally frigid temperatures forecast to soon grip much of the nation.
“The cold is really starting to spread,” said Fox Weather Meteorologist Samantha Thomas on Saturday.
“We’ve seen the wind chills [drop] across the Northern Plains — Montana, North Dakota have really gotten hit hard. This morning Dickinson, ND, had a wind chill of -69 degrees.”
The brutally cold air is expected to stretch as far south as Texas, according to Fox Weather.
Thomas estimated that 75 parts of the country breaking record low temperatures through Tuesday.
By Monday, Dallas could feel a wind chill of 0 degree.
“The most interesting days will begin Monday, when we could see those records broken across the South, parts of Texas and across even parts of Louisiana and Mississippi,” she said.
“Some of these temperatures across Texas and the South, this will be coldest air they’ve seen since they had that big cold spell back in February 2021.”