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BOSTON - An early nor'easter reinforced by distant Hurricane Wilma on Tuesday pounded beaches with 20-foot waves, knocked out power to thousands of people and spread rain across the Northeast, where many residents were still cleaning up from flooding earlier in the month.
Some areas also got their first snowfall of the season.
The National Weather Service posted coastal flood warnings from New Jersey to Connecticut and issued high wind warnings for parts of New England.
Twenty-foot waves eroded New Jersey beaches. Dozens of flights were canceled at Boston's Logan Airport and gusts to 70 mph were reported on Cape Cod.
The storm was drawing moisture from the remnants of Hurricane Wilma, which was passing far offshore after battering Florida a day earlier.
"It's getting some energy from Wilma, but it's its own separate system," said Alan Dunham, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton. The nor'easter is "going to be a good storm in it's own right."
The storm system came on top of record rainfall earlier in the month, when Mount Washington got 34 inches of snow in one weekend.
Many areas got more than a foot of rain. In Providence, R.I., it's already been the wettest month on record, with 13.21 inches of rain beating the 12.74 inches that fell in April 1983. Worcester, Mass., topped its October 1955 record of 10.98 inches with the 13.46 that fell early this month.
BOSTON - An early nor'easter reinforced by distant Hurricane Wilma on Tuesday pounded beaches with 20-foot waves, knocked out power to thousands of people and spread rain across the Northeast, where many residents were still cleaning up from flooding earlier in the month.
Some areas also got their first snowfall of the season.
The National Weather Service posted coastal flood warnings from New Jersey to Connecticut and issued high wind warnings for parts of New England.
Twenty-foot waves eroded New Jersey beaches. Dozens of flights were canceled at Boston's Logan Airport and gusts to 70 mph were reported on Cape Cod.
The storm was drawing moisture from the remnants of Hurricane Wilma, which was passing far offshore after battering Florida a day earlier.
"It's getting some energy from Wilma, but it's its own separate system," said Alan Dunham, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton. The nor'easter is "going to be a good storm in it's own right."
The storm system came on top of record rainfall earlier in the month, when Mount Washington got 34 inches of snow in one weekend.
Many areas got more than a foot of rain. In Providence, R.I., it's already been the wettest month on record, with 13.21 inches of rain beating the 12.74 inches that fell in April 1983. Worcester, Mass., topped its October 1955 record of 10.98 inches with the 13.46 that fell early this month.