New York City’s airports experienced flight delays, and Connecticut reported numerous lane closures on highway as cars spun out amid heavy rain. The weather service reported that small streams and creeks in southeastern Pennsylvania were going over their banks Friday night. New York City activated its flash flooding plan, and heavy rainfall resulted in a number of flash floods, causing some sections of roadways to be closed throughout Long Island. Officials in the Mid-Atlantic region and Northeast were bracing for the storm Friday night. Winds near gale force were possible from New Jersey to Canada through Sunday. Rainfall accumulations of 2 to 4 inches were possible along the Eastern Seaboard into coastal Maine, the hurricane center said. The storm’s low-level center was losing definition but remained a threat to the East Coast while “evolving into a low-pressure center,” Darin Figurskey, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Raleigh, N.C., said early Friday evening.įorecasters say Andrea could bring high winds, heavy rainfall, and localized coastal flooding through Saturday across the mid-Atlantic states and New England. The remnants of Tropical Storm Andrea were about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Cape May, N.J., and the system was moving northeastward at 35 mph (56 kph) ![]() Friday, the National Hurricane Center in Miami had discontinued all tropical storm warnings.
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