Name: Gusty winds lead to power outages in Northeast after deadly flooding
Uploaded: 2025-11-01T11:57:33.391Z
Duration: 2 min 23 s
Description: The day after pouring rain caused deadly flash floods in New York City, windy weather took over across much of the Northeast.

The day after pouring rain caused deadly flash floods in New York City, windy weather took over across much of the Northeast.

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Gusty winds have caused significant power outages across the Northeast United States, particularly in New York, after a period of record-breaking rainfall and flash flooding. The heavy rain, which set daily records in several locations including LaGuardia and Central Park, fell in a short period and contributed to hazardous conditions.

Despite the end of the heaviest rainfall, wind gusts reaching up to 40 miles per hour have complicated efforts to restore power. Wind advisories remain in effect, and breezy conditions are expected to persist into the weekend, making recovery efforts challenging for utility crews.

Gusty winds lead to power outages in Northeast after deadly flooding

Now, while we're mostly dry in New York, I was mentioning we do still have some of those showers into other areas. Want to zoom in here, give you a better idea of exactly what's been going on over the last hour. It's mainly really mainly Massachusetts, but some showers into Connecticut and then into portions of New York. They're zooming back out. Of course, the heavier rainfall into central upstate New York and then into northern New England. The places that really need it the most because of drought conditions. This is where some of the worst drought conditions are, especially drawing kind of a dividing line here in northern New England and Maine. Now, even though we did pick up a few inches of rain in this storm overall, it's going to take more than that to really fix our drought conditions because we are so so dry. The other thing we talked about. It's not just green on the radar. At this point we're seeing some snow, some wintry mix working its way, and that's going to end up moving further to the South as we go through the overnight hours into places like the Adirondacks, Appalachians above 2500, 3000 feet. That's where we will see the snow. A little bit of it wintry mix there. I do want to talk about yesterday, though in New York we showed you some of those scenes of the flash flooding. But how did we get to that point? Well, we had some record breaking rainfall specifically for the day. These are the records for October 30th alone, not all time rainfall records. Several portions of New York City breaking their record. LaGuardia, which is in Queens, then also Central Park there and most of the rainfall that you're seeing for those totals more than 2 inches more than an inch and 3 quarters. A lot of that fell within the span of half an hour, an hour, up to three hours, depending on exactly which total we're talking about. That's what led to those scenes. But now at this point, even if you're done with the rainfall, the wind is what's left behind. 30 mile per hour gusts in New York. Harrisburg back down to 32 mile per hour gusts. We've been in the 40s at times. As far as how strong that wind is, it's all led to power outages and not making too much progress here overall in New York, actually really, even just continuing to climb. The continued gusty winds making a hard for power crews likely to get power restored. So we do have those wind advisories in effect until very early tomorrow morning, but even after the strong wind gusts are gone, will still be left with those breezy conditions throughout the start. Of your weekend.

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