Between low pressure just east of the Outer Banks and strong high pressure over New England and the Canadian Maritimes, wind, rain, coastal flooding and battering waves continue to plague the East Coast from Nantucket and Long Island to the Jersey shore, the Delmarva Peninsula, Tidewater Virginia and northeast North Carolina.
Areas around the Virginia/North Carolina border have picked up from 8 to 13 inches of rain. Through tonight, 1-to-3-inch rains will focus on coastal New Jersey, much less than has been experienced farther south.
Last evening, the winds peaked with this storm as Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, Cape Henry, Norfolk and Oceana gusted to between 70 and 75 mph, causing many power outages. Into tonight, winds will gust to between 40 and 50 mph from Nantucket and Long Island to the Jersey shore and the Delmarva Peninsula. The risk for power outages will expand northward with these winds.
Strong winds will focus on southeast Massachusetts on Saturday, possibly gusting to over 50 mph on Nantucket.
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