{"id":99333,"date":"2025-08-21T12:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/99333\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:46:14","slug":"nyc-area-could-get-13-foot-waves-coastal-flooding-due-to-hurricane-erin-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/99333\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC area could get 13-foot waves, coastal flooding due to Hurricane Erin impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"pg838\">Hurricane Erin is making waves in the New York metro area, even as the megastorm is tracking far offshore.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"sa82\">The National Weather Service has issued a coastal flood watch for the southern shores of Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island for Thursday from 6 p.m. until midnight, and for most of the Jersey Shore through Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cbmt\">High-surf advisories are also in effect at regional beaches, with meteorologists predicting waves between 4 and 13 feet tall, and potentially up to 16 or 17 feet tall, this week. The biggest effects are expected Thursday night, and officials are <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/beaches-close-across-nyc-and-nj-as-hurricane-erin-brings-dangerous-swells-to-region\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">urging people to stay out of the water<\/a> amid life-threatening rip currents.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"1gkna\">\u201cThere will be a possibility for widespread moderate coastal flooding, especially in vulnerable locations near the waterfront and shoreline,\u201d said John Murray, a meteorologist for the NWS\u2019 New York office. \u201cGiven how high the surf is, it\u2019s very dangerous to be out there in the water.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"1vpmy\">He added that area beaches could be eroded by the supercharged tides, especially toward the eastern end of Long Island. Strong winds are forecast as well.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"pg838\">Separately, showers are set to pass through the area Wednesday, bringing locally heavy rain and chances of minor flooding through Thursday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurricane Erin is making waves in the New York metro area, even as the megastorm is tracking far&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-99333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}