Tropical Storm Henri prodded its way into the core of the Northeast upon making landfall, slowing down to a swampy crawl and inundating the region with heavy rainfall.
The storm made landfall in Westerly, Rhode Island, around 12:15 p.m. with sustained winds of 60 mph – tropical storm strength. Since then, the eight-named storm of the year has been anything but in a hurry to work its way through Connecticut and Massachusetts, knocking out the power to over 115,000 customers at one point.
The bulk of Henri’s heavy rain focused on the western side of the system, dousing New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York while leaving some areas east of landfall, such as Massachusetts’s areas of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, relatively dry.
Even after being downgraded to a tropical depression on Sunday evening, Henri’s heavy rainfall has triggered heavy flooding for many areas, particularly in New Jersey. Although the Garden State was spared from a direct strike, the soaking outer bands of the storm dumped as much as 8 inches of rain in some communities in the central portion of the state. According to The Associated Press, the intense flooding triggered the need for 86 water rescues in Newark, Public Safety Director Brian O’Hara said.
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