The Northeast, possibly including New York City, is expected to get hit with flooding rain and high winds from a powerful storm system that’s set to take shape off the East Coast on Friday.
Computer forecasts disagree on the storm’s exact track but somewhere from the Mid-Atlantic to the coast of Massachusetts is going to be hit by high winds and heavy rain. The current forecast calls for the Boston area and Cape Cod to get as much as 7 inches (18 centimeters) of rain through the weekend, said Bob Oravec, a senior branch forecaster at the US Weather Prediction Center.
A track further west would bring more dangers to New York City and coastal New Jersey and Long Island…