NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) -- An early-season nor’easter swept across the East Coast on Monday, triggering power outages and air and rail delays.
The storm will reach its peak before winding down overnight, said Frank Pereira, a senior branch forecaster at the US Weather Prediction Center. A gust of 43 miles per hour was recorded in Midtown Manhattan, while 57 mph was clocked at Eatons Neck on the north shore of Long Island.
“Today should be the worst of the last of it,” Pereira said, noting that winds and rain will continue through the day from the Mid-Atlantic states into New England.
The storm, more typical of a large winter system, caused coastal flooding and prompted high wind warnings and advisories stretching from Massachusetts to North Carolina. Governor Kathy Hochul declared an emergency for New York City, Westchester and Long Island. New Jersey also issued a similar declaration. NYC's Columbus Day Parade was also canceled.
The MTA banned empty trailer trucks from city bridges and tunnels, including the Throgs Neck and Whitestone bridges through 6 p.m.
As of early Monday, there were about 35,000 customers without power from Massachusetts to South Carolina, according to PowerOutage.com. At the same time, 95 flights, mainly out of Boston, were canceled and another 482 delayed, FlightAware said.
NJ Transit suspended Monday train service on its North Jersey Coast Line between Bay Head and Long Branch and between Atlantic City and Philadelphia, the agency said on its website. Several bus lines were also halted. There were delays on the Montclair-Boonton line because of a downed tree across the tracks.
Moderate flooding is forecast for the Battery, at Manhattan’s southern tip, at 2 p.m. when high tide arrives. The water will be 2.6 feet higher than Sunday morning’s peak. Major or near major flooding has also been recorded at various spots along the coast, including New Jersey, Virginia and North Carolina.
Various scenes of flooded streets across the region appeared on social media since Sunday. In Georges Bank, about 100 miles east of Boston in the Atlantic, waves were reaching nearly 20 feet high, according to the US National Data Buoy Center. At the entrance of New York Harbor they have reached 12.8 feet.
1010 WINS contributed to this report.
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