NEW YORK, Oct. 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Roads are impassable, trees are down across the city, and delays persist at airports Friday as New Yorkers weather the eighth straight day of rain.

    It has not rained this much in October since 1913, and weather forecasters say the city could end up passing another milestone, the record for the month set 102 years ago.

People wait at a taxi stand in a driving rain outside Pennsylvania Station in New York Oct. 12.  (AP)

    The protracted rain in the city started last Friday and the badweather now seems no end in sight. According to Tim Morrin, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Upton, New York, the phenomenon is very unusual for October, one of the driest months of the year.

    "Chances are, since we are over 10 inches already, it's not outof the question we will break the all-time wettest October record," he said.

    So far this month, 10.91 inches of rain have fallen at Central Park as of 4 p.m. Thursday. In October 1913, 12.97 inches fell on the city. The record for the month is 13.31 inches, set in 1903.

A boy walks away from a nearly empty Yankee Stadium Oct. 8. (AP)

    Morrin said an unusual weather pattern is keeping the rain in place. To the north is a massive ridge of high pressure that is preventing the storm from moving away. That pattern, Morrin said, is only now beginning to break.

    Indeed, the worst of the rain should be over by midafternoon Friday. The sun may even make an appearance sometime Saturday.

    On Friday drivers and pedestrians alike throughout the city battled the driving rain, wind gusts and chill as the on-again, off-again deluge entered its eighth day.

New York City police vehicles are seen in the rain at Times Square in New York October 8.  (Reuters)

    There were reports of minor flooding in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan, with the city remaining under a flood watch. A spokesman from the Department of Emergency Management also advised motorists to be aware of flash floods.

    Some families in the Bronx are being forced to weather the storms outside of their homes. The heavy rains may have contributed to a wall collapse in Mott Haven. More than a dozen families were forced to evacuate Wednesday night. They hope to be able to return to their homes by the weekend. Enditem