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The first day of the season hit Long Island on Saturday, resulting in widespread moderate flooding in several coastal communities on the north and south coasts, as well as localized and significant coastal flooding in some areas, forecasters said.
"We spent high tide everywhere, so the places on the coast that experienced coastal flooding. . . these water levels should continue to fall tonight, "Faye Morrone, a meteorologist with the Upton National Weather Service, said on Saturday.
Light rains and drizzle are expected to continue on the island overnight, Morrone said. Gusts of wind are also easing, but a Coastal Flood Safety Advisory was in effect late Saturday night and early Sunday morning as the next high tide approached. she declared.
"We are not expecting anything as high as we have seen this afternoon, but you could still experience a bit of flooding in the most vulnerable parts of the coast tonight." , she said.
The weather service issued coastal flood warnings all over the island Saturday afternoon, as well as a coastal flood warning during the night on the south coast, from from 22h. at 2 o'clock on Sunday. There is a high surf rating for the south shore until 14:00. Sunday.
Accumulated precipitation was measured between 1/2 and 1 inch west of Long Island, compared to more than 1 inch east of Long Island, she said. The National Weather Service reported that the total high precipitation on the island reached 1.85 inches at Riverhead on Saturday afternoon.
Morrone said the light rain and drizzle is expected to dissipate by Sunday morning. Sunday, the weather will be sunny or cloudy but dry with a chance of rain in the evening and Monday morning. The sun should rise Monday afternoon but the rain could return Wednesday night and continue until Friday, she said.
The Long Island Rail Road reported flooding on the tracks near the Island Park station, resulting in the temporary suspension of service back and forth on the Long Beach junction. The Oyster Bay station has also been flooded, Morrone said. Riverhead and Jamesport were flooded and several roads were closed in Port Washington, she said.
There were 2.5 to 3 feet of water along some parts of the Nautical Mile at the southern end of the Freeport waterfront, Morrone said.
"This is the largest amount of water we have since Sandy," said Freeport Mayor Robert T. Kennedy. The village was one of the areas hardest hit by the plot Sandy in 2012.
The National Weather Service reported that the tide reached 7.15 feet at Freeport – considered a "major flood phase", while Point Lookout and East Rockaway were on track to reach the "major" threshold said the forecasters.
High tides elsewhere also reached significant flood levels, reaching 7.47 feet in Peconic Bay at Riverhead.
Flooding also closed the Lloyd Harbor to Lloyd Neck roadway at approximately 1:30 pm, according to Lloyd Harbor Police.
In Southampton, the waters of the Peconic River flooded a Riverhead Park, submerging cars in a parking lot and climbing to the top of the picnic tables, said Southampton City Supervisor Jay Schneiderman late Saturday afternoon . "He was three or four feet at about the normal level," he said. He said the waters began to retreat around 15:30.
Long Island State Parks escaped with relatively minor damage from Saturday's storm, with one exception: Orient Beach State Park.
"Part of the causeway has been damaged in Orient Beach State Park, and an estimate of damage is being made," George Gorman, Long Island's deputy regional director of the Long Island Office, said on the phone. parks, recreation and historic preservation of the state.
As can happen with such storms, the Northwell Health Orchestra seats at Jones Beach Theater have been inundated. Sunken Meadow Creek overflowed into Fields 2 and 3 of this park, and in Wildwood National Park, flooding occurred under the beachfront bathhouse. Engineers will need to review this case to determine there was structural damage, said Gorman.
Surf waves of up to 10 feet were reported at Montauk Point during high tide in the afternoon. at Jones Beach and Robert Moses, the waves reached about 6 to 8 feet, he said.
Gilgo State Park, closed due to erosion in recent years, is fine, he said.
Suffolk County police also reported floods in Lindenhurst, Copiague, Eaton's Neck, Setauket and Stony Brook, as well as on the Sunrise Highway, west of the Oakdale merger.
In Island Park, Mayor Michael McGinty said people from two vehicles stranded in the flood had been saved without injury.
"It was not a normal high tide," McGinty said.
McGinty said officials knocked on residents' doors to monitor them and basements were flooded.
"When you encounter a northeast that blows in a rising or falling moon, there are difficulties and today has been such a day," McGinty said.
National Meteorological Service meteorologist Nelson Vaz said coastal flooding was "among the worst in some of the northern attacks we've seen."
"We have not seen these levels in a few years," he said. "It's nothing near Sandy, but it's coming from a combination of high winds and a full moon earlier this week, which created high tides."
Nearly 1,200 Island customers were still affected by power outages on Saturday night, PSEG Long Island reported at 8:30 pm. There have also been delays at LaGuardia and Kennedy airports in Queens, the Federal Aviation Administration reported.
Wind gusts reached 60 mph in Bayville and Shinnecock, 47 mph in Long Beach, 44 mph in Jones Beach, 66 mph in Amagansett and 65 in Great Gull Island. , depending on the service. At 4 pm Most of the time, the winds had begun to calm down, Morrone said.
As the coastal storm moves north into New England and the sun comes back on Sunday,
the Suffolk County marathon runners will be attending a "much more enjoyable but cool" day, said Bruce Avery, News 12 weather forecaster on Long Island. Sunday will be mostly dry, with sunshine in late morning and in the afternoon and high temperatures again reaching 50 to 50%, according to the weather service.
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