Travel delays to continue as pre-Thanksgiving storm aims at New England
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A disruptive storm packing heavy rain, snow, ice and gusty winds will focus on New England, northern New York and the southern Atlantic coast into Wednesday afternoon. AccuWeather meteorologists say that vast improvement will expand over much of the eastern United States, ensuring dry weather for those traveling on Thanksgiving Day.
Early holiday travelers in New England will face slowdowns as the storm moves through the region. That storm has received a tremendous boost along the East Coast as moisture from the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico have collided.
Wind-driven, heavy rain blasted the mid-Atlantic
The storm unleashed torrents of rain from Tuesday to Tuesday night -- enough to cause urban flooding along interstates 80, 81, 95 and other major highways across the region. A general 1.75 to 2.50 inches of rain poured down in about 18 hours along Interstate 95 from Virginia to New York City, which wiped out the rainfall deficit for November.
As the storm strengthened, winds gusted between 40 and 60 mph, which were strong enough to break tree limbs and trigger sporadic power outages. More than 30,000 utility customers in the mid-Atlantic were in the dark as of Wednesday morning, according to PowerOutage.us.