The dregs of Debby are done dropping rain on the Big Apple — but heavy winds will still linger throughout the five boroughs into Saturday, forecasters warned.
The post-tropical storm — which prompted tornado and flash flood warnings in New York City — had all but passed the metro area by 7:30 p.m., with radars showing the eye moving at a “whopping” 38 mph.
FOX Weather meteorologist Christopher Tate said that that was “good news.”
“It means that any rain that we’re going to see here in the metro is going to be very short-lived, and should limit any flooding impacts, nothing like we saw earlier this week,” Tate told The Post Friday.
The rain that came with Debby — which will last through the early hours of Saturday — proved light in the metro area, prompting forecasters to withdraw flash flood warnings.
With the storm quickly moving northeast, the only remaining danger would be the winds left in Debby’s wake.
There were reports of 40 mph winds throughout the five boroughs Friday evening, and while a drastic decrease from the 50 mph gusts reported earlier, the winds are still strong enough to cause damage.
“With soils already saturated from rain earlier this week, that could lead to trees blowing over,” Tate warned.
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“Saturated soil is very loose soil, so it won’t take as much wind to topple a few trees here and there. So I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of reports along those lines coming out of the five boroughs, but fortunately, it’s not going to be as impactful as it could have been.”
Though Debby is all but gone from the Big Apple, her effects are still wreaking havoc at airports.
Both JFK and LaGuardia were experiencing dozens of delayed flights Friday evening, with some being pushed off as much as four hours, flight status aggregates show.
Even Newark Liberty International Airport, which came out from under Debby before New York City, was still experiencing serious delays.
Earlier Friday, LaGuardia Airport issued a total ground stop due to thunderstorms.
Debby made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane along Florida’s Big Bend on Monday and again in South Carolina on Thursday as a tropical storm.
At least eight people were known to have died as a result of the storm.
