The warning comes as a record-breaking dry spell and abnormally high temperatures have lowered reservoirs and fueled wildfires in the northeast.

The Sky Is Falling New York City has declared its first drought warning since 2002, adding to the long list of portentous climate-related events that have been afflicting the US more frequently, and forcefully.

New York Mayor Eric Adams on Monday issued the first drought warning since 2002 amid historically low rainfall and blazing brush fires.