Heavy rain that may cause flooding is expected both Thursday and Friday.Alerts/AdvisoriesA flood watch has been issued for most of the region from 2 p.m. Thursday through 8 a.m. Friday.Threat of severe flash flooding ThursdayRelief from the heat and humidity will come with a price on Thursday,

New Jersey is under a flood watch on Thursday afternoon and evening with significant and widespread flash flooding in the forecast. See details on timing.

New Yorkers are being warned to brace for intense thunderstorms and flash flooding come Thursday afternoon — with as much as 5 inches of rain expected in a matter of hours. The city’s emergency management agency urged people to avoid travel over the next 24 hours after the National Weather Service blasted out a flood watch for the region through Friday afternoon.

Heavy rains and flooding killed 30 people in Beijing, authorities in the Chinese capital reported on Tuesday, bringing the death toll from the storms in the region to at least 34.

Extreme weather killed at least 60 people in northern China over the past week, with 31 deaths in an elderly care home in Beijing's hilly Miyun district in one of the deadliest floods to have hit the Chinese capital in years.

Extreme rains and flooding across northern China have killed 60 people, more than half of them at a care home for the elderly in a suburb of Beijing, which has grappled with its deadliest flood disaster in years.

The facility sat on low-lying ground near a river that had flooded after the unusually intense rains.View on euronews