Gusty winds lead to power outages in the Northeast after deadly New York flooding

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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00:00Now, while we're mostly dry in New York, I was mentioning we do still have some of those

00:04showers into other areas. I want to zoom in here, give you a better idea of exactly what's been

00:09going on over the last hour. It's mainly, really mainly Massachusetts, but some showers into

00:15Connecticut and then into portions of New York there. Zooming back out, of course, the heavier

00:20rainfall into central and upstate New York and then into northern New England. The places that

00:25really need it the most because of drought conditions. This is where some of the worst

00:29drought conditions are, especially drawing kind of a dividing line here in northern New England and

00:34Maine. Now, even though we did pick up a few inches of rain in this storm overall, it's going to take

00:39more than that to really fix our drought conditions because we are so, so dry. The other thing we

00:46talked about, it's not just green on the radar at this point. We're seeing some snow, some wintry

00:50mix working its way in. That's going to end up moving further to the south as we go through the

00:55overnight hours into places like the Adirondacks, the Appalachians above 2,500, 3,000 feet. That's

01:01where we will see the snow, a little bit of it, wintry mix there. I do want to talk about yesterday

01:08though in New York. We showed you some of those scenes of the flash flooding, but how did we get

01:12to that point? Well, we had some record-breaking rainfall specifically for the day. These are the records

01:18for October 30th alone, not all-time rainfall records. Several portions of New York City

01:24breaking their record, La Guardia, which is in Queens, then also Central Park there. And

01:29most of the rainfall that you're seeing from those totals, more than two inches, more than

01:33an inch and three quarters, a lot of that fell within the span of half an hour, an hour, up

01:39to three hours, depending on exactly which total we're talking about. That's what led to those

01:45scenes. But now at this point, even if you're done with the rainfall, the wind is what's left

01:49behind. 30 mph gusts in New York, Harrisburg back down to 32 mph gusts. We've been in the 40s at times

01:55as far as how strong that wind is. It's all led to power outages and not making too much progress

02:02here overall. And New York actually really even just continuing to climb the continued gusty winds,

02:08making it hard for power crews likely to get power restored. So we do have those wind advisories in effect

02:14until very early tomorrow morning. But even after the strong wind gusts are gone, we'll still be left

02:18with those breezy conditions throughout the start of your weekend.