{"id":357825,"date":"2026-09-26T22:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357825\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T22:58:08","slug":"powerful-storm-pummels-northeast-us-with-rain-and-high-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357825\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful storm pummels northeast US with rain and high winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Heavy rain and strong winds battered the northeastern US on Saturday as an unusually powerful autumn storm intensified, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and leaving tens of thousands of people without power.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">New York, Boston and Philadelphia were all in the firing line of the \u201cnor&#8217;easter\u201d \u2013 so labelled for its northeasterly winds \u2013 as authorities warned of potential major flooding and road closures.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis storm is expected to bring major coastal flooding to the mid-Atlantic coast over multiple high tide cycles through the weekend,\u201d the National Weather Service said in its latest forecast.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cPrepare immediately for significant inundation in low-lying areas near the shore, including roads underwater and impacts to homes and businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy rain and strong winds battered the northeastern US on Saturday as an unusually powerful autumn storm intensified,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28627,5645,7064,4709,133034,29208,776,20511,11539,534,9,24,11,10,49,51,50,29,39615,2271],"class_list":["post-357825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-alicia-keys","tag-american","tag-boston","tag-central-park","tag-global-citizen","tag-jetblue","tag-long-island","tag-maryland","tag-massachusetts","tag-national-weather-service","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-noreaster","tag-united","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}