Rain was in short supply this summer.

The Big Apple sweated through its most arid summer in more than two decades — receiving 36% less rainfall than what Gotham is used to during the hot and sticky months.

Just 8.7 inches of rain were dumped across the five boroughs between June and August, far less than the average of almost 14 inches.

This summer was the driest in NYC since 1999. ZUMAPRESS.com

But the low rainfall isn’t posing concerns for another full-on drought, like the one New York City saw last fall.

“The New York City area is under what’s called a moderate drought. It’s a scale of basically 0 to 4. And so we’re at a level two right now,” explained Stephen McCloud, a Fox Weather meteorologist.

“That just means that we’re trending in the direction of being more and more behind

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