2026-09-25 20:46:16 北美东部夏令时 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
这场来势汹汹的东北风暴正向新英格兰地区逼近，于周五强度升级，在东海岸沿岸掀起风暴级强风与巨浪，气象预报员警告称，恶劣天气状况将持续至本周末。
数千万民众处于风暴影响范围内，此次风暴已导致多场音乐会取消，马萨诸塞州科德角附近岛屿的居民也已在风暴来临前数日向大陆疏散。美国国家气象局表示，中大西洋沿岸地区预计将出现危险洪灾，尤其是新泽西州和特拉华州附近区域，灾情将从周五持续至周六。
“降雨最集中的区域大概会从新泽西海岸、长岛一直延伸到罗德岛州以及马萨诸塞州东部，”美国国家气象局天气预报中心高级全国预报员布莱恩·赫利说道，他补充称风暴预计将于周六晚些时候减弱。
部分社区居民被敦促疏散
新泽西州沿海自治市镇马纳斯quan（Manasquan）的部分低洼地区已发布自愿疏散令，新泽西州和纽约州州长也在风暴来临前宣布进入紧急状态。
“我们正面临中等偏上程度的洪灾，或许可能达到轻度重大洪灾级别，”马纳斯quan市市长迈克·曼根说道，“这对不少人来说可能没什么概念，但这意味着街道上将长时间被大量积水淹没。”
新泽西海岸沿线的一些城镇已遭遇沿海洪水冲击。在希普伯顿镇，道路已被淹没。部分司机试图驾车闯过不断上涨的洪水，而一些居民正抓紧携带少量随身物品，徒步逃往地势较高的地方。
在西布莱特镇，房主和企业主们都在做最坏的准备。不过，多诺万礁海滩酒吧老板迈克尔·卡尔德费表示，店铺将照常营业。“我们就像是当地的社交聚集地，多诺万礁这种地方，每逢风暴天气反而会更热闹，”卡尔德费在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时说道。
西布莱特镇市长布莱恩·凯利称，该镇预计将遭遇时速最高50英里的强风，部分街道的积水可能达到6英尺。官方预计洪水将于周六开始出现，并在午间前后加剧。
“情况会比平均水平更糟糕。我们每年大概会遭遇一到两次洪灾，有时多有时少，但我认为这次的灾情会接近艾琳飓风级别的洪灾，”凯利说道，他指的是2011年那场在东北部造成严重洪灾的风暴。“希望我预测错了，但这是我的直觉。”
凯利希望居住在低洼地区的数百名居民考虑疏散。他表示，该镇将开放娱乐中心作为避难所。“很多房屋都建在高处，但显然，大家还是有可能暂时被困在家中，”他补充道。
这场风暴已经在新泽西州海洋城掀起高海浪，造成海滩侵蚀，整条整条的街区都被海水淹没。
在纽约长岛，当地已宣布进入紧急状态。工作人员沿海滩筑起沙袋墙，以阻挡上涨的潮水侵袭房屋。
“如果潮水退去，我们预计不会遭遇太严重的洪灾，”长岛弗里波特村市长罗伯特·肯尼迪在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时说道，“但如果潮水持续上涨，村内的洪灾情况可能会加重。”
在波士顿以南的马萨诸塞州普利茅斯镇，船民们正将船只驶离港口。“我只是希望大家能多加小心，提前做好规划，”波士顿市长吴弭在周五的新闻发布会上说道。
在马萨诸塞州南海岸，科哈塞特和斯库特凯特镇恰好处于风暴的核心影响区域。尽管部分海岸线设有海堤保护，但其中一些海堤目前正在维修中，或是因联邦资金削减而停工。
强风可能会将海水推过海堤，引发洪灾。
“海浪冲击海堤后会向上涌起60、70甚至80英尺，再加上东北风的助力，每一波海浪都会直接拍打到房屋上，”斯库特凯特镇一处海滨住宅的业主凯文·吉尔周四在接受哥伦比亚广播公司波士顿分部采访时说道。
马萨诸塞州诺顿市国家气象局的气象学家马修·贝尔克表示，周五夜间至周六，科德角、玛莎葡萄园岛和南塔基特岛的最强阵风时速可达60至65英里，波士顿周边地区约为50至55英里，内陆更远地区则为35至40英里。
“毫无疑问，离海岸越近，受到风暴的影响就会越大，”贝尔克说道。
贝尔克称，随着新英格兰地区进入秋季，东北风暴并不罕见，但本季这场风暴的一个担忧点在于，此时树木仍保留着叶片，会增加风阻。这会增加树枝被吹断的风险，进而可能导致停电，道路上也会散落大量 debris（残骸），他说道。
东北风暴导致体育赛事、音乐会取消
就在居民们为风暴做准备之际，波士顿红袜队宣布调整本周末与芝加哥小熊队的系列赛。球队将周日下午的比赛改至周五，以举办分场双赛。此外，艾德·希兰宣布取消原定于周五和周六在马萨诸塞州福克斯伯勒市吉列体育场举办的重磅演唱会，原因是风暴影响。
与此同时，连接科德角与南塔基特岛和玛莎葡萄园岛的公共渡轮服务因强风和汹涌海浪于周五大范围停运。前往这些岛屿的多趟航班也已取消。
在罗德岛州，前往布洛克岛的渡轮也已停运。此次渡轮服务中断预计将持续至周六。
对于经常往返这些岛屿的民众来说，被困在其中一侧的情况“已是生活的一部分”，伍兹霍尔、玛莎葡萄园岛和南塔基特岛蒸汽船管理局的发言人肖恩·德里斯科尔说道。大多数人都已为渡轮取消的情况准备了应急预案。
“这确实很麻烦，但我们目前知道该如何应对这类情况，”他说道，“这并非超出常规范畴。生活在这个地区的人都知道该如何处理这类事情。”
马萨诸塞州北部沿海城市格洛斯特的阿什利·德斯蒂诺带着两个年幼的孩子在海滩上散步，之后便准备待在家中度过风暴。
“我们周五下午来海滩，因为知道整个周末都得待在室内，”德斯蒂诺说道，她已经准备好乐高积木和手工活动，用来打发7岁和4岁的两个孩子的时间。
她还额外用绳索固定了船只，以防强风和潮汐带来影响，她的丈夫也搬出了发电机，以防停电。
Nor’easter barrels down on East Coast, threatens millions with severe flooding and powerful winds
2026-09-25 20:46:16 EDT / CBS/AP
The powerful nor’easter headed to New England intensified Friday, generating storm-force winds and creating massive waves along the East Coast that forecasters warned could create dangerous conditions through the weekend.
Tens of millions of people are in the path of the storm, which has already canceled concerts and prompted people on islands near Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to head to the mainland in the days ahead of the nor’easter’s arrival. Dangerous flooding was expected along the Mid-Atlantic coast, particularly near New Jersey and Delaware starting Friday and heading into Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.
“The heaviest rain is probably going to be from coastal Jersey, Long Island, up to Rhode Island, and eastern Massachusetts,” said Brian Hurley, senior national forecaster with the NWS Weather Prediction Center, adding that the storm was expected to weaken later Saturday.
The East Coast is under several weather alerts from this weekend’s nor’easter. Sept. 25, 2026. CBS News
Residents of some communities urged to evacuate
A voluntary evacuation had been issued in some low-lying areas of Manasquan, a coastal New Jersey borough, while the governors of New Jersey and New York declared states of emergency in advance of the storm.
“We’re definitely seeing at the high end of moderate and maybe the low end of major flooding,” said Manasquan Mayor Mike Mangan. “That may not mean a lot to people, but that means there is going to be a lot of water in the streets for a long time.”
Some towns along the New Jersey shore were already getting battered by coastal flooding. In Ship Bottom, roads were submerged. Some drivers attempted to push through the rising floodwaters, while some residents were grabbing what little they could and fleeing to higher ground on foot.
In Sea Bright, homeowners and businesses were preparing for the worst. However, Michael Cardelfe, owner of Donovan’s Reef Beach Bar, said his doors will stay open. “We are like the local watering hub and Donovan’s Reef is the kind of place, when we have a storm, we get busier,” Cardelfe told CBS News.
Brian Kelly, the mayor of Sea Bright, said the borough is bracing for winds up to 50 mph and flooding that could reach up to 6 feet on some streets. Officials expect the flooding to start Saturday and worsen by midday.
Forecast rainfall totals from this weekend’s nor’easter. Sept. 25, 2026. CBS News
“It’s going to be worse than average. We do have probably one or two flooding events a year, sometimes more, sometimes less, but I think this one will be closer to an Irene-scale flooding event,” Kelly said, referencing the 2011 storm that caused major flooding in the Northeast. “I hope I’m wrong, but that’s my gut feeling.”
Kelly hopes hundreds of residents living in low-lying areas will consider evacuating. He said the town will open its recreation center for evacuees. “A lot of the homes are elevated, but obviously, you know, people can get trapped in their house temporarily,” he added.
The system was already kicking up high surf and causing beach erosion in Ocean City, New Jersey, where block after block was underwater.
On New York’s Long Island, a state of emergency was declared. Crews built a wall of sand along the beach to keep the rising tide away from homes.
“If the tide goes out, we don’t expect to have such bad flooding,” Robert Kennedy, mayor of the Long Island village of Freeport, told CBS News. “If the tide stays in, it could increase the flooding in the village.”
In Plymouth, Massachusetts, south of Boston, boaters were clearing out the harbor. “I just want people to take some extra precaution, plan ahead a little bit,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said in a Friday news conference.
On Massachusetts’ South Shore, the towns of Cohasset and Scituate sit right in the bullseye of the storm. While parts of the coastline are protected by seawalls, some of those seawalls are in the middle of repair projects or have seen those projects stall due to federal funding cuts.
A wave crashes over an unfinished seawall near Oceanside Drive in Scituate, Massachusetts, on Sept. 24, 2026. David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
Strong winds could push the ocean water over the seawalls, creating flooding.
“So the waves hit the seawall and they go straight up about 60, 70, 80 feet, and the wind hits it from the northeast and every wave ends up hitting the house,” Kevin Gill, owner of an oceanfront Scituate home, told CBS News Boston on Thursday.
Peak wind gusts could approach 60 to 65 mph on Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket on Friday night and Saturday, compared with about 50 to 55 mph around Boston and 35 to 40 mph farther inland, according to Matthew Belk, a meteorologist with NWS in Norton, Massachusetts.
“It’s definitely going to be a case of the closer to the coast you are, the more impacts from the storm you’re likely to see,” Belk said.
Belk said nor’easters are not unusual as New England moves into fall, but one concern this early in the season is that leaves remain on the trees, creating more wind resistance. That could increase the risk of downed limbs, which in turn can cause power outages and leave debris in roads, he said.
Nor’easter cancels sporting events, concerts
As residents braced for the storm, the Boston Red Sox announced their weekend series against the Chicago Cubs would be adjusted. The team moved the Sunday afternoon game to Friday to create a split doubleheader. Separately, Ed Sheeran announced that his high-profile Friday and Saturday shows at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, would be canceled due to the storm.
Meanwhile, the public ferry service connecting Cape Cod with the islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard was experiencing widespread cancellations Friday due to strong winds and choppy water. Several flights to the islands were also canceled.
John Garrisi, left, and Gaige Graf move an outdoor table away from the shorefront during the early stages of a nor’easter storm, on Sept. 25, 2026, in Gloucester, Massachusetts. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty
Over in Rhode Island, ferries were also canceled for Block Island. The disrupted ferry service was also expected to spill into Saturday.
For people who regularly travel to and from the islands, the possibility of getting stuck on one side or the other is “part of life,” said Sean Driscoll, a spokesperson for the Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority. Most people have backup plans in place for when boats are canceled.
“It’s a nuisance, but you know, we know what to do with this kind of stuff at this point,” he said. “This is not out of the realm of ordinary. Part of living in this region is just kind of knowing how to deal with this stuff.”
Ashley Destino of Gloucester, a coastal city in northern Massachusetts, enjoyed a stroll along the beach with her two young children before preparing to hunker down at home during the storm.
“We came to the beach on Friday afternoon because we knew we were going to be inside all weekend,” said Destino, who has Legos and arts and crafts activities prepared to entertain her two children, ages 7 and 4.
She also prepared for the high winds and tides by securing her boat with additional lines, and her husband pulled out a generator in case the electricity goes out.