Brooklyn bracing for powerful ‘Frankenstorm’ — Updated
Forecasters said Friday that a powerful hybrid hurricane/ nor’easter will impact New York City early next week.
The National Weather Service has issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook for Brooklyn and the rest of the Metro area. The outlook calls for a major coastal storm with heavy rainfall, high winds, coastal flooding and beach erosion” starting late Sunday and peaking Tuesday, October 30.
Forecasters say there is even a chance of snow – depending on Hurricane Sandy’s interaction with a storm chugging in from the west and freezing air streaming south from the north. The weather service has coined the term “Frankenstorm” to reflect the merging of the storms right before Halloween.