Tag: Nor’easter

A nor'easter is expected to bring heavy rains, coastal flooding and strong wind gusts that may down utility wires, causing potential power outages on Long Island this weekend, forecasts say.

The fourth nor’easter forecast to hit Long Island in a month dropped 20 inches of snow—with a foot falling in four hours in Islip Wednesday night into Thursday morning, meteorologists said.

The third nor’easter to hit Long Island in two weeks brought between one and 18 inches of snow to parts of the region, meteorologists said.

The second nor'easter to hit Long Island in less than a week dumped nearly nine inches of heavy, wet snow on parts of the region Wednesday and also caused strong winds, power outages and flooding.

A nor'easter is bringing strong wind gusts and heavy rains that caused power outages and flooding on Long Island for the first weekend of March.

Embed from Getty Images A powerful nor’easter that hit Long Island on Monday left brief power outages, South Shore beach erosion and lingering coastal...

The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for parts of Nassau and Suffolk counties on Sunday, the first day of spring, warning of—you guessed it—snow. You can thank Winter Storm Regis, which has been dumping snow across the Midwest on its trek east, morphing into a good, old-fashioned weekend nor’easter—just in time for the Monday morning commute.

Although there is still “considerable uncertainty,” surrounding the storm, the NWS reports a 70 percent chance of snow Sunday with a high of 36 degrees, plus 26 mph wind gusts. The temperature will drop into the low 30s when the sun goes down and snow is likely to continue throughout the night and into the Monday morning commute.

Anyone have a blanket we can borrow?

Forecasters say that anywhere from 2 to 5 inches of snow is possible Saturday, depending upon the storm's track.