Metro

Another round of rain and strong wind hits the New York region

Talk about heavy rain to dampen everyone’s mood today.

Rain falling throughout the day may push the city to a record for the wettest March ever — although warmer weather will arrive later this week in time for Easter.

New York is forecast to get as much as six inches of rain from the storm that started Monday night — pushing swollen rivers from New Jersey to Massachusetts back into flood stage.

Central Park received 10.54 inches of rain in March 1983 — the current record — but today’s storm is on pace to set a new one, said Rick Castro, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

The overnight rainfall pushed this month’s total to 8.3 inches.

When the rain does finally end on Wednesday morning, temperatures are forecast to rise to the mid- to upper-70s, according to AccuWeather.com.

Meanwhile, the entire New York-metro area — including parts of New Jersey and Long Island — will also have to deal with northeasterly winds around 15 to 30 mph with gusts over 40 mph.

Weather-related delays averaged three hours at Newark Airport and two hours at LaGuardia Airport, according to the Port Authority.

In The Bronx, the heavy downpour and a mud slide caused some interruptions along some Metro-North tracks this morning.

A man in his 70s drove past a barricade onto a flooded section of the Bronx River Parkway and had to be rescued from the roof of his truck, Westchester County police said.

On Long Island, rain coupled with tides inundated a 20-mile stretch of oceanfront road in Southampton.

The combination of rain and strong winds will make travel for this evening’s rush hour unpleasant with flash flooding expected throughout the region. Rain is expected to taper off by tonight.

The National Weather Service, meanwhile, issued a flood watch warning for the five boroughs, outlying counties and parts of New Jersey and Connecticut.

The Battery, Manhattan’s southern shoreline, recorded a water level of 6.87 feet at high tide on Monday — above flood stage of 6.7 feet, Bloomberg News reported.

A coast flood advisory has been issued for New York and southern Connecticut because tides are expected to be 1 to 1.5 feet above normal.

The Mahwah River in Rockland County jumped more than 2 feet overnight and is now 4.8 feet above flood stage.

The Passaic River at Pine Brook, NJ, was at 18.24 feet as of 9 a.m. and is forecast to reach 20.9 feet by today, just below major-stage flooding of 21 feet.

With AP and Bloomberg News