A severe Nor'easter is battering the U.S. East Coast, causing extensive flooding and power outages from North Carolina to Boston. While significant damage has already occurred, meteorologists warn that the worst conditions—including peak winds and storm surges—are expected Sunday before the system weakens by Monday.
James Kaufman, World News Report today.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to give you a complete update.
I'm talking about everything going
on with the Northeasterly in the Northeast.
I've got pictures of flooding all the way
from North Carolina up to Boston,
and we're going to go over what's about to occur.
It's about to get a whole lot worse.
It is 3 p.m. on Saturday.
The worst is yet to come.
we will have increased winds
and more rain the well storm hasn't even made landfall yet
and there's extensive flooding we'll start out
with a quick forecast from Fox Weather that was
made this morning and it talks about well how bad Sunday
is going to be and into Monday even
Now, remember, we have all the power outages, all the AI, all
the timing, several, well, at least 10 pictures of heavy flooding all
the way up the coast, even in the Bronx, they're in kayaks.
I'm going to start out again with a quick update from this morning
from Fox Weather, and we'll try to get that going for you right now.
Just really beginning. I mean, in spite of the fact that we've had
these relentless northeast winds pushing the ocean toward the coast,
as we've been covering here on Fox Weather the last several days,
it seems like the storm itself is just really beginning to reach
the northeast, the New Jersey, the Jersey Shore up toward Long Island
and New England just now this morning.
Here, take a look at the map and you can see the pressure map here.
The individual lines you see on the map,
they're lines of equal pressure.
So the way we're going to interpret this map is the closer
these lines are together, the stronger the winds
because the more the air is getting squeezed toward the coast.
And what we see is that this whole thing is pressurizing.
In other words, the lines are coming closer together
and it's just creeping to the north.
I mean, this thing is just drifting to the north.
So what that means is that we just continuously get
this same push of air in basically the same direction.
And that's what causes the problem,
because that means it holds the high tide in.
The high tide pushes the water in.
The wind is pushing in that direction.
And another high tide comes and the water can never get out.
And that's why we get coastal flooding in this kind of situation.
here's where the band bands of wind
are you can see they're analyzed by the computer a couple of
them here but notice it doesn't look like
a hurricane nothing about this looks like a hurricane
this is a different kind of storm nor'easter storm
and unfortunately the way it's setting up it's
setting up so that this uh intense band of wind
in advance of the center happens to be over very
very populated the most populated part
of the united states there are still fronts attached
to it because it is a northern type system called a nor'easter
because it predominantly has these
strong northeast winds associated with it
a coastal storm in other words what we call it in
the wintertime let's look at this close up here
so this is right now and you see winds out here
gusting to 40 out at Montauk as the pressure continues
to drop these winds are going to go up
So the lower the pressure, the stronger the winds we're going
to get in these bands that have set up.
I want to talk some about LaGuardia Airport.
The LaGuardia is still operating, but with plenty of delays,
with strong winds coming in or gusty winds coming in.
74 mile per hour winds in Surf City, as you just saw.
Obviously, these northeast winds are pushing in on the Jersey Shore.
So let's look at what the model has to say about the wind.
So we start the model, look in the upper left,
and you see that now, Saturday morning.
Now, go forward in time and watch the time up here
and watch the wind direction.
Right now, coming in this way over Long Island Sound.
Here's Long Island Sound. LaGuardia is at the end of Long Island Sound.
And as long as there's an onshore wind,
it's going to push the water against the beaches,
beach erosion and other problems on the Jersey Shore
and point south but now let's go through
time through today and watch
the wind direction slowly slowly slowly begin to change and then
suddenly it changes as the center kind of moves closer
to the coast now we're getting this angle
here so the forecast for tomorrow morning is look
at this gusting 50 to 60 at LaGuardia but the
other thing is the wind is starting to push
the water down Long Island Sound. Remember, the high
tides are midday-ish there on the west end of Long Island Sound,
and we go to later tomorrow. Now it's
directly in here. So tomorrow's tides are going
to be the highest in the LaGuardia area. We may
see flooded runways there.
We still have onshore winds here into New York Bay and also along the
Jersey Shore but by late in the day tomorrow they will begin to let up
and by tomorrow night will
significantly less so wind direction has
a tremendous amount to do with what time the worst
arrives in any one location right according
to another meteorologist here Sunday will be the
worst day the storm is going to start
to die off tomorrow night they think hope these are the
different zones and what to expect in the different
zones uh again tomorrow Sunday and uh later this
evening will be the worst
of it i did see some wind gusts up over 74 miles an hour uh i believe
in New Jersey, said it on the screen there
and trees uprooted etc obviously i'm about to show
y'all that every street is flooded from New York down
to New Jersey as far down as North Carolina
that means Virginia too so it is crazy
this was taken today and this is as you can see quite
a distance from coming on shore yet
that's why they think it's going to get worse before it
gets better now i'm gonna run the winds here you can see
this hurricane that's formed now about to
hit all of the Hawaiian islands
and this is gonna be a much stronger hurricane than it was uh well
they were hit with a month ago
and then we have an extremely strong hurricane here uh i believe
this is Polo yes that is correct this is Polo
and it could hug the coast and actually has a chance
of hitting San Diego this is getting crazy we're going
to run it you can see it's this is present
time i'm going to call out the times as we go
but you can see that it's still offshore here
and this is into Saturday night to Sunday morning
finally making landfall halfway through the day
on Sunday but it's gonna get crazy
and the landfall breaking it up it's into Sunday night
almost gone it looks like this is Monday here uh
and it looks like you're out of trouble
while still the coastal areas are getting hit to the extreme northeast
but you're out of trouble by
Monday late and we don't have an exceptional amount
of people without electricity here as
you can tell, 120,288 homes, most of them
in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey,
and all the way down, I believe this is D.C.,
some in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia,
and California for, well, a whole different reason.
Now, this is from 10 this morning.
You can see that the numbers are rising.
What we just saw was more of a real-time situation.
situation although this covers uh well
a little bit different areas i thought i thought in there
again these numbers have all risen now
these are the areas that really need to watch out for the
increase in winds especially
in the dark blue here where they're expecting 70 mile per hour winds
but they did show a 70 on the map up there at some point tonight
and tomorrow and as you get into
Pennsylvania and upper New York,
there's not a lot of risk, except for rain, perhaps.
All right, this is from Wildwood or North Wildwood, New Jersey.
Y'all can know these
areas much better than I am, but we will take a look at what they have.
I've got a little of
everything. It flooded the entire coast along with New York City
and Long Island and New York
city is going to really flood tomorrow as uh
as the forecast showed you this is what most of the
new jersey coast looks like uh
and we're talking about cape may atlantic county ocean county
monmouth county and burlington county completely
flooded i could show you a thousand of these
And it might get a lot worse
We're expecting a lot more rain and more winds
Through at least late tomorrow
Now this is a future cast
On the 26 flash flood warning
Until about 645 eastern time
And this is a future cast
Over New Bedford and South Kingston
Really lighting up with some heavy rains
Y'all are in the eye of, well, not really the eye of the storm,
but y'all don't have a rain band on top of most of the area currently.
The eye of the storm is still offshore.
And this is, again, a future cast.
Welcome to Howard Beach, JFK, and Queens, New York.
There's a couple out for a stroll in their kayaks.
You're looking at about two to three feet
of water on every street there.
and that's going to get a lot worse.
They're looking at four to five feet
as soon as these winds get a little bit closer
and more rain bands hit the area.
Again, Queens, but all of Long Island should flood.
Now, again, I don't know the areas as well as you guys do,
but these look like beach houses, basically.
This was a street.
This is Wildwood, New Jersey.
a state of emergency has been declared in New Jersey
and in New York I would show you Kathy
hopeful doing it but i disdain her so that won't
be occurring this is Queens New York two foot of
water right now they're expecting two more feet
so not a good good scene in Queens and that does
will mean that most of New York's streets are flooded.
Lots of delays at the airport, as indicated.
I'll stick around to the end
because I've got something special at the end
in just a moment for you guys.
All right, here we have a couple of ducks enjoying the streets,
and it's going to be Beach Haven, New Jersey.
You can see the whole entire strip has been knocked out.
I've been to all these towns.
looks like a well about two feet of water supposed
to increase unfortunately they don't indicate where
this is we have flooding all the way down
to North Carolina heavy flooding in Virginia
saw the power outages there
and then as you move further up of course this is the Washington Post
but i don't know where the picture was taken was taken today
and they're talking about 60
mile per hour winds six inches of rain both
those numbers will increase they're looking for
eight to twelve inches of rain now
and i've already seen 74 mile per hour winds today
and tomorrow they're supposed to increase as he said
as it pushes inland this is all the way down
at norfolk virginia the entire town has
been flooded as you can see we'll take a quick look
at this, let it run through,
they give you some large sweeping views.
As you can see,
heavy flooding all the way down through Virginia
and North Carolina even. Pretty amazing, I
would say.
Pray for everyone's safety, folks.
This is Surf City last night.
Today and tomorrow
they're looking at a storm surge of up to 20 feet.
They've seen nowhere near that yet.
they've seen four to five feet
so i don't know what's going to happen with the 20 foot waves
that we know for a fact
or on their way that should be interesting as they push their way
in inward through the streets of these towns
here uh again surf city new jersey all right
what's crazy here is you have surfers out even
in new york by the dozens this is a little further
south but uh ladies and gentlemen he wasn't even
on a big wave uh you can see that he has no control
and he's stoked and he'll be washed all the way into the beach
but surfers up and down the coast
even even offshore in New York
and even further to the north it is a fairly large wave though
unbelievable there's also paragliders uh
that use the uh kites and the surfboards
they're really risking their asses these are
severe severe watermen uh so anyway some people
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