From her weather tower in Coney Island, here’s today’s Weather by Rose at 9:30 am:
Heavy downpours until 2 p.m. or so. It’ll clear up by the afternoon. Temperatures in the 70’s. There might even be a peep of sun. The rest of the weekend is supposed to be nice.
The F train isn’t running at all.The rest of the trains are running. Mostly problems with the F. Otherwise everything is going okay.
The City Room Reports that as of 8:18 a.m., "the F line was suspended at its terminus at 179th Street
in Jamaica, Queens, and the 71st-Continental Avenues station in Forest
Hills, Queens, because of switch problems at the 179th Street station.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Web site, which had not
been updated since 6:33 a.m., had previously reported that the system
was running normally."
The tornado clean up continues. In Bay Ridge and Sunset Park, dozens of buildings were damaged. For many residents it meant thousands of dollars in property loss. Many were forced to leave their homes.
The tornado’s heavy winds, estimated to have been up to 111 to 135 miles per hour, tore through sections of Brooklyn, damaging roughly 40 buildings and downing dozens of trees. Residents in the Bay Ridge, Flatbush and Sunset Park neighborhoods reported damaged houses and hundreds of crushed cars along several blocks.
Meteorologists say the tornado path started in Bay Ridge just after 6:30 a.m. and continued on an east-northeast path across 68th Street between Third and Fourth Avenues. Eleven homes along that part of the tornado’s path suffered moderate to severe roof damage.
The storm continued to move east-northeast into Leif Ericson Park Square, where trees were downed and suffered severe damage.
The storm tore off the roof of a Nissan car dealership at the corner of 66th Street and Fifth Avenue, then returned to the ground farther northeast, causing scattered tree damage along Sixth Avenue.
The tornado then returned to the ground to cause more damage on 58th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, where five homes lost their roofs.
A tornado warning was issued for the area around 6 a.m., but it was unclear until Wednesday evening whether a tornado had in fact touched down.
This report from the AP Wire:
NEW YORK (AP) — Airlines canceled 300 flights Sunday as a hard-blowing nor’easter gathered strength along the East Coast and threatened to deliver some of the worst flooding to coastal Long Island in 14 years.
The cancellations at the New York area’s three major airports affected most carriers, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. More cancellations were expected throughout the day.
Forecasters expected sustained wind of 40 mph and a storm surge of 3 to 5 feet, a combination that could cause as much coastal damage as a winter storm that wreaked havoc on the island in late 1992, Gov. Eliot Spitzer said.
Heavy rain and thunderstorms extended from Florida up the coast to southern New England on Sunday morning.
Spitzer said some low-lying areas of Long Island may need to be evacuated, and he deployed 3,200 members of the National Guard to potential flood areas.
The weather system was forecast to strengthen along the East Coast and form a nor’easter, a storm that follows the coast northward with northeasterly wind driving waves and heavy rain.
The National Weather Service posted storm warnings and watches all along the East Coast, with tornado warnings in South Carolina and flood warnings extending from Virginia north to the New York area. Winter storm warnings were in effect for parts of New England.
Two to 4 inches of rain was forecast for the New York City region with wind gusting to 50 mph. Snow and sleet were possible inland, the weather service said.
It’s SNOWING. It’s Sunday night and the cars on Third Street are lightly covered with snow. Not much accumulation expected. For more info go here.
On Monday:
few flurries possible early. Partly cloudy and windy. High 29F. Winds NW at 20 to 30 mph.
High 71%. Partly cloudy.
A mix of clouds and sun. High 71F. Winds SW at 10 to 15 mph. The parade starts at 6:30 p.m.