NewsdayTV meteorologist Geoff Bansen: Another 24 hours of this
NewsdayTV meteorologist Geoff Bansen said Long Islanders should brace for persistent rain and wind through Saturday night as a nor’easter continues to slam Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
Bansen said it will take about another 24 hours before conditions start to improve on Long Island.
“The winds will die down about midday tomorrow into Sunday afternoon, but until then we’ve just got these rounds of rain,” Bansen said.
The storm is wobbling north but is forecast to shift toward the Jersey Shore, just south of Long Island, bringing “an extra push of water,” he said.
Those waves are expected to erode beaches.
Rainfall totals have surpassed one inch in Eastport, Commack and Blue Point, as of Saturday morning. Islip and Westhampton have both experienced 54 mph wind gusts and downed trees are causing road closures and outages.
“It’s just going to keep on keeping on right through the PM hours,” Bansen said. “It does look like the heaviest push of this storm might be tonight in terms of rainfall, but the winds might pick up as that band of torrential rain moves on through.”
Joseph Ostapiuk covers the Town of Oyster Bay and the city of Glen Cove. He joined Newsday in 2023 after spending more than six years at the Staten Island Advance.
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