The tristate space braced for extra pummeling Monday because the second day of a nor’easter battering the East Coast, flooded and closed main coastal roads in New Jersey and blasted 60 mph wind gusts.
States of emergency remained in impact in each New York State and New Jersey, because the worst of the storm was anticipated to hit all through Monday. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s emergency declaration coated all 5 New York Metropolis boroughs, Westchester County and Lengthy Island, with coastal flood warnings in impact by way of 8 p.m. Sunday. “Moderate to major” coastal flooding was doable alongside Jamaica Bay and Lengthy Island’s South Shore, with 1.5 to three inches of rain anticipated, Hochul’s workplace mentioned.
The storm pressured New York Metropolis to cancel its annual Columbus Day Parade with no plans to reschedule, as officers urged residents to remain inside. New Jersey Transit suspended quite a few prepare and bus traces.
Nationwide Climate Service gale warnings for the shores of Lengthy Island Sound east of New Haven, Conn., and Port Jefferson, N.Y., initially in impact by way of 6 a.m. Tuesday, had eased by round 10 a.m., although remoted ocean flooding was nonetheless doable.
Individuals with umbrellas cross the New York Inventory Change on Monday. (Richard Drew/AP)
In New Jersey, wind gusts topped 60mph in some coastal cities on Sunday, and related circumstances had been anticipated all through a lot of Monday. Flooding closed a stretch of U.S. 40 close to the coast, and ocean waters rose alongside the shoreline round Atlantic Metropolis.
As of mid-morning Monday, energy outages had dropped to about 10,000 in New Jersey, down from a excessive of 19,000, in response to monitoring web site Energy Outage. Upwards of 10,000 New York State clients had been with out energy as of 10 a.m.
Initially Revealed: October 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM EDT
