Nor’easter barrels down on East Coast, threatens millions with severe flooding and powerful winds

September 25, 2026 / 8:46 PM EDT / CBS/AP

The powerful nor'easter headed to New England intensified Friday, generating storm-force winds and creating massive waves along the East Coast that forecasters warned could create dangerous conditions through the weekend.

Tens of millions of people are in the path of the storm, which has already canceled concerts and prompted people on islands near Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to head to the mainland in the days ahead of the nor'easter's arrival. Dangerous flooding was expected along the Mid-Atlantic coast, particularly near New Jersey and Delaware starting Friday and heading into Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.

"The heaviest rain is probably going to be from coastal Jersey, Long Island, up to Rhode Island, and eastern Massachusetts," said Brian Hurley, senior national forecaster with the NWS Weather Prediction Center, adding that the storm was expected to weaken later Saturday.

A voluntary evacuation had been issued in some low-lying areas of Manasquan, a coastal New Jersey borough, while the governors of New Jersey and New York declared states of emergency in advance of the storm.

"We're definitely seeing at the high end of moderate and maybe the low end of major flooding," said Manasquan…

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