From my experience they usually don't ban tractor trailers from the NYC bridges unless there is a high wind warning issued. They do have their own wind measuring instruments on all the MTA-TBTA/PAPD controlled bridges to keep an eye on things. I wonder what the threshold is for them to actually declare a ban. Could also have been a more northerly component to the gust that flipped the tractor trailer then what has been ongoing since yesterday. That bridge runs basically E-W.
Tractor trailer just overturned on the upper level of the Verrazano Bridge. I'm guessing it was due to the wind. Surprisingly they didn't have a tractor trailer ban the last 24 hours with the wind the way it has been.
Temp down to 32 now at my station in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn. Most of the streets/sidewalks have been wind swept dry except for standing areas of water.
Tidal flooding now along the Wantagh Pky at Ocean Pky on Long Island (and I’m guessing in Freeport as well) Also along parts of Jamaica Bay in southern Queens.
Probably “seeing” the storm/energy ejecting farther south in the mid-section of the country then earlier model runs. Thus, it stays a bit farther south as it comes east.
This could be the kind of situation where areas along the south shore of NYC (JFK, southern Brooklyn, Rockaway, Staten Island) change to rain and have temps 33-35 while upper Manhattan and Bronx have freezing rain/sleet with temps 28-32.
Worst I’ve ever seen around here was 1994. Temperature around 25 degrees with heavy rain. Everything was coated with around an inch of ice afterwards. The ice stayed for several days as temps were in the teens by day and single digits at night.
I don’t think the systems (northern stream and E Pacific storm) are over land yet. Let’s see if better sampling changes anything when they do come closer.
Lag gusting to 40 mph last hour. Rest of area gusting into the 30s. Mostly SE. Wonder how bad high tide is going to be along the Jersey shore and southern NYC/Long Island this morning.
Co-worker came in from Suffolk county this morning and got into a multi car accident coming downhill off the Robert Moses Causeway Bridge due to black ice.