A tree blocking the road near Diamond Ledge Road in Stafford Monday morning. Asplundh Tree Service was at the scene.
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In Redding, Route 58, also known as Black Rock Turnpike, was closed between Cross Highway and Meeker Hill Road due to a downed tree on Monday, October 13, 2025.
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A woman walks in the rain along Dixwell Avenue in Hamden on October 13, 2025.
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Drivers navigate Fountain Street in New Haven Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, as a nor’easter brought wind and rain to Connecticut.
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A dog walker walks through the rain on Lowin Avenue in New Haven during a nor’easter on Monday, Oct. 13, 2025.
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Drivers navigate Fountain Street in New Haven Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, as a nor’easter brought wind and rain to Connecticut.
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Bill Larsch walks through the rain on Lowin Avenue in New Haven during a nor’easter Monday, Oct. 13, 2025.
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Waves crash along the shoreline as a nor’easter approaches the Connecticut coast at Canal Beach in Westport, Conn. on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. A nor’easter is expected to arrive in Connecticut Sunday afternoon, bringing high winds and potential flooding, the National Weather Service said.
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A man walks his dog as rain falls from a nor’easter at Jennings Beach in Fairfield Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. A nor’easter is expected to arrive in Connecticut Sunday afternoon, bringing high winds and potential flooding, the National Weather Service said.
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A flag whips in the wind as storm clouds from a nor’easter approach the Connecticut coast at Byram Park in Greenwich Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. A nor’easter is expected to arrive in Connecticut Sunday afternoon, bringing high winds and potential flooding, the National Weather Service said.
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Storm clouds from a nor’easter approach the Connecticut coast at Byram Park in Greenwich Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. A nor’easter is expected to arrive in Connecticut Sunday afternoon, bringing high winds and potential flooding, the National Weather Service said.
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Storm clouds from a nor’easter approach the Connecticut coast at Cove Island in Stamford Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. A nor’easter is expected to arrive in Connecticut Sunday afternoon, bringing high winds and potential flooding, the National Weather Service said.
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Storm clouds from a nor’easter approach the Connecticut coast at Greenway Island, center, and Shippan Point, right, in Stamford Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. A nor’easter is expected to arrive in Connecticut Sunday afternoon, bringing high winds and potential flooding, the National Weather Service said.
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Storm clouds from a nor’easter approach the Connecticut coast in Norwalk Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. A nor’easter is expected to arrive in Connecticut Sunday afternoon, bringing high winds and potential flooding, the National Weather Service said.
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Storm clouds from a nor’easter approach the Connecticut coast at Jennings Beach in Fairfield Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. A nor’easter is expected to arrive in Connecticut Sunday afternoon, bringing high winds and potential flooding, the National Weather Service said.
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In Redding, Route 58, also known as Black Rock Turnpike, is closed between Cross Highway and Meeker Hill Road due to a downed tree on Monday, October 13, 2025.
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In Redding, Route 58, also known as Black Rock Turnpike, is closed between Cross Highway and Meeker Hill Road due to a downed tree on Monday, October 13, 2025.
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In Redding, Route 58, also known as Black Rock Turnpike, is closed between Cross Highway and Meeker Hill Road due to a downed tree on Monday, October 13, 2025.
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Drivers navigate Fountain Street in New Haven Monday, Oct. 13,2025, as a nor’easter storm brought wind and rain to Connecticut.
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A pedestrian crosses Main Street in Danbury, Conn, in the rain on Monday morning. October 13, 2025.
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A pedestrian crosses Main Street in Danbury, Conn, in the rain on Monday morning. October 13, 2025.
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A nor’easter that has prompted states of emergency in New York and New Jersey has brought heavy rain and gusty winds to Connecticut where thousands of power outages were reported Monday morning.
In Connecticut, gusty winds picked up as steady rain, which began around midday Sunday, continued into Monday morning. Winds up to 47 mph were recorded in Bridgeport and Stamford early Monday, the weather service said.
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The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory and a coastal flood advisory along the Connecticut shoreline.
The wind advisory along the coast is set to expire at noon Monday. The coastal flood advisory is in place until 8 p.m.
By early Monday afternoon, Connecticut power outages had risen to about 10,000, according to Eversource and United Illuminating.
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There did not appear to be any Connecticut school closings Monday due to the storm. Many schools, banks and offices were already scheduled to be closed Monday for the Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day holiday.
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Power outages in Connecticut continued to climb throughout the day, with more than 15,000 being reported as of 1 p.m. on Monday.
Eversource, the state’s largest utility provider, reported 12,919 outages at that time. It said that figure included 1,379 in East Hartford.
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United Illuminating, which covers parts of New Haven and Fairfield counties, reported 2,855 at the same time. The majority of those were in New Haven.
The storm brought more than 2 inches of rain to Canterbury, while several other locations saw amounts approaching 2 inches, according to the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network, an organization that tracks precipitation
While the storm was responsible for thousands of power outages in Connecticut as winds knocked down trees and branches that took down utility wires, the rain also was sorely needed.
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Much of southern Connecticut had languished in a deepening drought, while the rest of the state has been dry.
As the storm brought wind and rain to the Northeast Monday, an airplane crashed along a highway in Dartmouth, Mass., state police there said.
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Massachusetts State Police said they learned around 8:15 a.m. of a “fixed-wing airplane” that crashed in the highway median of Interstate 195. A fire resulted on the ground from the crash, the agency said.
The plane may have been attempting to land at New Bedford Regional Airport, state police said. No information on injuries was immediately available, nor were the identities of anyone onboard.
The agency said it did not appear the pilot provided the airport with a flight plan or the number of people onboard the plane.
The area where the plane came down sits in the southeastern corner of Massachusetts to the east of the Rhode Island line.
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It was not immediately clear whether weather was a factor in crash. However, weather conditions were poor at the time the crash was reported. The National Weather Service forecast called for cloud ceilings that would require pilots to fly using instruments, and low visibility in rain. Gusts near 35 mph were expected inland and up to near 60 mph along the coast.
The storm slammed the New Jersey shoreline with high winds and coastal flooding that covered roads, storm damage reports catalogued by the National Weather Service said.
There were no reports of damage in Connecticut from the National Weather Service. However, reports from municipal officials, utilities and police agencies showed downed trees and utility wires were having an impact throughout the state, knocking out power for thousands of residents and closing off some roads.
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The more than two-dozen storm damage reports in New Jersey mostly were arrayed along the coastline, where the National Weather Service had predicted the worst impacts of the storm would fall. Several recorded wind speeds in excess of 50 mph.
A state of emergency was declared across New Jersey because of the storm, The Associated Press reported.
Some areas farther inland experienced flooding or downed trees, including in Brooklawn, where a section of Route 47 flooded Sunday evening around 7:45 p.m., according to the weather service.
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The reports also noted several downed trees along Long Island Monday morning.
Most Metro-North trains are operating on schedule Monday morning as the nor’easter continues to inundate the area with wind and rain.
As of around 9:30 a.m., the train service said there were delays on the Waterbury Line.
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The 8:45am train from Waterbury to Bridgeport was delayed near Beacon Falls because of a tree across the tracks near the Derby-Shelton train station, Metro-North said.
No other delays were reported.
The areas most at risk of flooding from the storm are along the coast. The coastal flood advisory issued for Connecticut warned that “widespread minor to locally moderate flooding” was expected at vulnerable points along the shore.
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“Some roads and low lying property including parking lots, parks, lawns and homes/businesses with basements near the waterfront will experience shallow flooding,” the advisory said.
Farther south, the weather service has issued a flood advisory for parts of New York’s Lower Hudson Valley, and a coastal flood warning across Long Island, southern Westchester County and the New York City metropolitan area.
The coastal flood warning also extends down the New Jersey shoreline and into the mid-Atlantic states.
Eversource, the state’s largest electricity provider, reported more than 9,000 power outages as of around 8 a.m. Monday. More than 1,200 power outages were reported in Killingworth, while there were about 900 in Torrington and 400 in each Montville, Madison and Greenwich, according to Eversource.
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Windy conditions and rain are expected to persist in Connecticut through Monday night. Wind gusts up to near 40 mph are expected to continue until around noon, though gusts above 30 mph are expected into Monday night. Tuesday will remain breezy, but with less powerful winds gusting up to around 25 mph. High temperatures will reach about 60 degrees, but the wind chills may make it feel like the 40s, the weather service said.
Rain will continue through Monday night, with the possibility for showers into Tuesday afternoon. Showers will dry out from west to east Tuesday evening, giving way to mostly sunny skies on Wednesday.
Long Island faces the remaining brunt of high winds and coastal flooding expected on Monday, the weather service said.
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The agency said “widespread moderate to scattered areas of major coastal flooding” were expected during high tide Sunday night and Monday along the south shore bays of Nassau and southwestern Suffolk counties. The highest winds were expected to affect eastern Long Island until around 6 p.m, Monday, with gusts up to 60 mph possible, the weather service said.
The weather service issued a high wind warning for eastern Long Island. The remainder of the New York metro area, including coastal Connecticut, New York City and the northeastern New Jersey shore were under a wind advisory. The weather service said gusts in those areas could reach 50 mph, with the strongest winds expected Sunday evening into Monday morning.
The storm made its way up the East Coast Sunday, prompting coastal flood warnings and advisories from from the North Carolina shores to New England, and high surf advisories along the coasts of New Hampshire and Maine as of Monday morning.
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In Delaware, the National Guard was activated, and a voluntary evacuation order was issued for the town of Bowers Beach, the Associated Press reported. In South Carolina’s Georgetown County, several drivers had to be rescued from flooded cars, the AP reported.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a state of emergency for eight southern counties, while New Jersey officials declared a state of emergency across the state.
