New York thunderstorm sees lightning strike One World Trade Center in dramatic footage as wild weather lashes city
DRAMATIC footage shows the moment a lightning bolt hit the One World Trade Center in New York City.
Thunderstorms are sweeping across New York and New Jersey early on Monday morning.
footage captured the moment a bolt struck the top of the skyscraper on Monday.
New Yorkers took to social media to say they heard the thunder and saw the flash.
One said: “My bedroom windows face 1WTC – the thunder was so loud and I could see the brightness from the lightning through the edges of my blackout curtains.
“I thought we were under attack. Happy Monday.”
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While another commented: “The lightning was so bright I thought it had hit a building.”
A third said their dog wasn’t “happy” as they said their pooch jumped into the bathtub amid the loud noise.
Some compared the boom to a “bomb explosion”, while others were left unimpressed that they were woken up just after 6am local time.
CBS correspondent Nancy Chen tweeted: "Good Monday morning, did anyone else in New York City get woken up by the loudest thunder they have ever heard and immediately think it was something else??"
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Meteorologists at the say that thunderstorms should weaken as they pass over Long Island.
But, there’s a risk of showers this afternoon.
Storm Watch team meteorologist Allan Nosoff told that rain from Sunday is likely to linger over New York today.
Scattered showers and storms are likely to be persistent on Monday morning before cloudy skies arrive this afternoon.
Temperatures could reach up to highs of 60F in the city – below average for this time of year.
The mercury will hover between 50-55F in the suburbs, according to forecasters at .
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Another storm system is expected to pass through the state on Wednesday as it’s unlikely temperatures will top 60F.
Another band of rain is expected to linger on Friday amid an area of low pressure.
Forecasters warn that a coastal storm could hit New York as temperatures could be in the low 40s.
The storm comes just days after wild weather hit parts of the US during the weekend.
Storm chasers Nicholas Nair, 20, Gavin Short, 19, and Drake Brooks, 22, were killed after their vehicle hydroplaned in Kansas on April 29.
Their 2017 Volkswagen Tiguan left the roadway to the right and then came back onto the highway and stopped.
It was then struck by a semi traveling in the same direction, according to Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
It took fire crews and paramedics almost five-and-a-half hours to remove the victims from the wreckage.
All three were pronounced dead at the scene.
The three victims were meteorology students at the University of Oklahoma.
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Leigh O'Neil, a geographic information science major at OU, said the three students were the "kindest, smartest people" she'd ever met.
She added the selfie the three sent to their friends Friday was a perfect representation of how funny they were.
O'Neil said: "You couldn't be around them without laughing your ass off.
"They truly would do anything to help others out, even before their own well-being.
"They are already missed greatly. Their loss is insanely painful for us all."
Evan Short, 17, Gavin Short's younger brother, said Gavin "lived more in his 1.5 years at OU than in his first 18 years of life."
More than 1,000 buildings were affected when a twister swept through Andover on Friday.
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Andover Fire Chief Chad Russell revealed some homes “were completely blown away.”
Storm spotters also reported hail the size of softballs in Holbrook, Nebraska, and Enterprise, Kansas.
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