Streets on the Jersey Shore flooded Monday and the Coast Guard rescued someone in the ocean off Cape Cod as a nor’easter brought rain, dangerous surf and wind gusts of more than 40 mph to the Northeast, officials said.
There appear to have been no weather-related deaths reported in the storm on the East Coast, which was forecast to affect southern New England through most of Tuesday.
But in western Alaska, more than 50 people were rescued and three are reported missing after remnants from Typhoon Halong struck coastal areas over the weekend, bringing winds of around 70 mph, officials said.
On the U.S. East Coast, a Coast Guard helicopter in Massachusetts rescued a person in the water off the southern coast of Cape Cod at around 3:17 p.m. Monday, the guard said. The person was transported to Air Station Cape Cod. Falmouth police said they were trying to determine how the person entered the water.
In New York City, parts of Queens got over 2 inches of rain and saw a peak wind gust of 46 mph, the city’s emergency management department said. Manhattan got around 1 and 1/2 inches of rain and had an unofficial high wind gust of 43 mph, it said.
Riza Cordial had a large tree limb fall on her Long Island home at around 3 a.m. Monday as the storm hit the region.
“You could hear it. Very loud,” Cordial, of Mastic Beach, told NBC New York.
A powerful nor’easter brings coastal flooding in Avalon, N.J., on Sunday.Lokman Vural Elibol / Anadolu via Getty Images
The nor’easter is expected to move eastward out over the Atlantic Ocean by Tuesday, leading to much calmer weather. The National Weather Service office in Boston said rain and gusty wind in southern New England should ease by Tuesday night.
While heavy wind and rain battered the East Coast, the remnants of a typhoon slammed into western Alaska. The Alaska Department of Public Safety said Monday that 51 people and two dogs have been rescued from Kipnuk and Kwigillingok.
Three people from Kwigillingok are unaccounted for, the public safety department said, and state troopers have received secondhand reports of missing people in Kipnuk and were trying to determine how many are unaccounted for there.
The Coast Guard, Alaska Army National Guard and Alaska Air National Guard are assisting in the search and rescue efforts, the department said.
A typhoon is another for term for a hurricane that is used for storms that form in the Northwest Pacific. Both terms describe tropical cyclones.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong began as a tropical storm in the Philippine Sea on Oct. 5, then strengthened to a typhoon before it passed Japan as a Category 3 storm, according to the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere.
Kipnuk saw winds of 79 mph from the typhoon’s remnants, the National Weather Service office in Anchorage said.
Southern California also was bracing for rain Monday. The Los Angeles Fire Department issued evacuation warnings for areas affected by the Palisades, Hurst and Sunset fires from 10 p.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Wednesday because of the threat of flooding from burn scars.
Coastal areas are forecast to get around 1 1/2 inches of rain and mountain areas could get more than 3 inches, the fire department said.