USA TODAY: … As of 5 a.m. ET, the storm was 90 miles west of Philadelphia, with maximum sustained winds of 65 miles per hour, the National Weather Service reported. Now called ‘post tropical cyclone Sandy,’ the storm was moving at 15 miles per hour toward the northwest. It will steadily weaken over the next 48 hours. However its fury is by no means spent. Gale force winds are expected to continue Tuesday morning from Virginia northward through New England.
Even though water levels along the coast have been subsiding since Monday evening, the combination of the storm surge and high tide could still cause areas to flood, especially during the next high tide. Flood and flash flood warnings are still in effect over coastal waters in the mid-Atlantic states, New York and New England. The Weather Service is predicting that water could reach between two and four feet above ground level in Delaware Bay and the Upper and Middle Chesapeake Bay. The Jersey shore northward to Massachusetts is expected to reach between one and three feet.
Rainfall of between three and eight inches is expected across the mid Atlantic states, with isolated maximum amounts of 12 inches possible. Snowfalls of between two to three feet are expected in the mountains of West Virginia… (more)
