Hurricane Willa may be gone, but some of it will not help but fuel the first weekend of the season, the National Weather Service said.

Power outages, travel delays, flooding, rough surfing and widespread "miserable conditions" are all likely from the storm, AccuWeather said. Rain and wind will be spread on the East Coast Friday through Saturday night or early Sunday, weather.com said.

The worst weather will be from Virginia to Maine. "At this time, it will be a long time to wind-up the wind," according to AccuWeather senior meteorologist Dave Dombek.

Nor'easters – named for the direction of their winds blow – are most common from the fall of the early spring. In the heart of the winter, they can become a powerhouse of snowstorms, often delivering a crippling blow to the big East Coast cities.

Since it's only October, however, most of the rain that falls this weekend will be rain, so snow shovels will not be needed for most folks. Some of the higher elevations of northern New England and the interior.

The combination of rain, and AccuWeather said.

Even before the weather, the East Coast, the South will see a few days of Willa merge with other weather systems. After a rainy day Wednesday in waterlogged Texas, the rainiest rain Thursday will be along the Gulf Coast from Mississippi to Florida.

"The Florida Panhandle and Florida Panhandle are likely to be expanded by powerful Hurricane Michael," AccuWeather meteorologist Kyle Elliott said.

Early Wednesday, Hurricane Willa weakened rapidly into a tropical depression after slamming into a stretch of beach towns, fishing villages and farms along Mexico's Pacific Coast as a Category 3 storm late Tuesday,

Willa hit the mainland near Isla del Bosque, Mexico, which is about 50 miles southeast of the tourist town of Mazatlan.

Contributing: The Associated Press

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