00:00Meteorologist Craig Allen joins us now from Long Island.
00:03Craig, I look at the National Weather Service, the latest bulletin here.
00:05Strong nor'easter off the mid-Atlantic and northeast will bring coastal flooding, rip currents, strong wind gusts, and heavy
00:11rain to the region this weekend.
00:12What's it going to look like?
00:13I confess, I woke up this morning extremely early.
00:16It wasn't a wild scene weather-wise outside.
00:18How intermittent is this going to be over the course of the weekend?
00:21Well, it's coming in bands, and that's what's, you know, so typical of tropical systems or, in this case, a
00:28nor'easter.
00:30They're coming in in a counterclockwise direction off the water, and you can see the swirl there.
00:35I mean, this is a perfectly developed storm at the present time.
00:39It does not have a name because it doesn't have all the tropical characteristics, but it is doing what a
00:45tropical storm would do.
00:46It's bringing waves of wind, waves of rain.
00:49When they come in, they can come in with gusts of about 50 miles per hour or so.
00:53The rain blows sideways, and then you get some localized flooding.
00:57And at the same time, those winds take down some trees, too.
01:02So we're watching this very, very closely in the form that it's not going to be constant, 24, 48 hours
01:10worth of steady rains that will be occurring out there the entire time.
01:14But they will definitely come in waves, as I said, that will make for very tough getting around the tri
01:22-state, the New York City tri-state region, and Boston as well.
01:26And there's one other thing that I want to mention, as long as we're talking about waves.
01:30Wow, the ocean is really, really rough out there right now, and it's more than likely going to stay that
01:36way for at least another four or five more tide cycles.
01:41So there's going to be coastal flooding, tidal flooding, that would be inundation of salt water along the coastline, at
01:47least through Sunday's high tides.
01:50Craig, as you look at the dangers, obviously falling trees, power lines, things like that, but how big of the
01:56risk of flooding are we looking at, and where do you think it's going to be most acute?
02:00The most flooding is going to be, well, in two cases.
02:04Let's use the salt water flooding first.
02:07That salt water flooding is going to be along the Jersey Shore, the south shore of Long Island, definitely into
02:13Long Island Sound.
02:14I mean, the wind is just pushing it right into the Sound right now.
02:17So the north shore of the island and the coast of Connecticut, and definitely all of Cape Cod, Boston, the
02:23islands, and that whole area there.
02:25So that's the salt water inundation, especially at times of high tide.
02:30Fresh water flooding, like we saw so much of during the course of this summer with the big thunderstorms, that's
02:37going to be localized in these bands that I just mentioned.
02:40So that's going to be the type of thing where somebody in a basement apartment or in a poor drainage
02:47roadway is going to see that water start to pile up as we go through with each heavy band of
02:53rain that moves on through.
02:55So that's the type of day that this is going to be.
02:57Craig, I've got a two-part question.
02:59The first one's a bit of a curveball.
03:00Sure.
03:00Yesterday afternoon in the evening, the skies here were magical in New York.
03:04They were pink.
03:05Yes.
03:06It was really pretty.
03:07There was a rainbow that followed.
03:08What was going on with that?
03:09The second part of my question, again, local, is more of an observation, but I saw the mayor noting New
03:13York City spent one-third of this year under a flash flood emergency activation.
03:17What has changed if we've ended up here?
03:20Okay.
03:21So yesterday, that's a good question because I was asking that question yesterday.
03:26I said, would you look at this?
03:28What's going on?
03:28The sunset was magical, and where that rainbow came from at first was beyond me because there was no rain
03:36anywhere in the area, and you need the sun to reflect off those drops to have a rainbow.
03:42Well, it's just the perfect time of year, the perfect time of day, the perfect level of the sunset, looking
03:48at the rain that was first moving in off the east end of the island and the eastern sections of
03:54Connecticut heading in towards the west.
03:57So with that, that's how we got that incredible full sky rainbow, in some cases, a double rainbow.
04:06In terms of the flooding, well, you can blame El Nino for the big storms that are out there for
04:12all that heavy rain and the tremendous thunderstorms that we've had through the summer.
04:17All right.
04:17Craig Allen, Bloomberg News Meteorologist.
04:19Craig, I think David's coming for your job here.
04:21He seems very into the weather segment.
04:23All day, if I could, here.
