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WOR meteorologist Ray Stagich interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Let's check in with our weather guy, Ray Stajic, to
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  Speaker 1: see if it's fear, fright, hysteria, or hype about this
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  Speaker 1: ever-growing discussion. Everywhere I look about this nor'easter. Ray, at
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  Speaker 1: 7.54 East Coast time this morning, where are we?
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  Speaker 2: We're a little bit worse situation than we were yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: 7.54 a.m. Eastern time. Obviously, with the wind advisories, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to have wind. No high wind warnings yet. They're
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  Speaker 2: for eastern New England, but it does look like a windy,
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  Speaker 2: rainy weekend coming up and a prolonged event. Winds around
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  Speaker 2: the city even could gust 40-plus miles per hour at times,
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  Speaker 2: especially tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow night, into at least a part
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  Speaker 2: of Sunday. Long Island, 50-plus mile per hour winds. At
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  Speaker 2: a montauk point, could even see some 60-mile per hour gusts,
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  Speaker 2: but those will be mainly concentrated to eastern Long Island
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  Speaker 2: and eastern New England. We'll have a rain threat, too.
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  Speaker 2: About one to three inches in the five boroughs, a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more on Long Island. We could have some
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  Speaker 2: localized flooding in the low-lying areas. And Curtis, with the
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  Speaker 2: leaves still leafed out, too, we're going to be concerned
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  Speaker 2: about also some spotty power outages, too. So not going
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  Speaker 2: to be the best of weekends. Make your plans accordingly.
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  Speaker 2: If you are going to venture outdoors, know what's coming.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be a wind event. That's probably first around the city.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be a rain event. It'll be a flooding event
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  Speaker 2: around the coast, which is already occurring. There will be
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  Speaker 2: and there is already occurring inundation and significant beach erosion.
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  Speaker 3: So the flooding is all going to be coastal flooding inland.
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  Speaker 3: People don't have to worry about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think it's in the typical spots
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  Speaker 2: where we get these nor'easter south facing shores with this
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  Speaker 2: onshore flow. And then maybe some of the north facing
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  Speaker 2: shores as the nor'easter passes us and the winds go northeast, right?
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  Speaker 2: That brings that wind in on the north-facing shores too.
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  Speaker 2: So it's mainly going to be in the coastal areas
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  Speaker 2: that are normally susceptible to flooding during these bigger east
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  Speaker 2: coast storms. I don't see something like we saw years ago.
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  Speaker 2: I forget what storm it was where we had this
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  Speaker 2: persistent push up the Hudson River, and we actually saw
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  Speaker 2: flooding in and along the Hudson River in places they
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  Speaker 2: hadn't seen it before. So we don't see anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: And again, with the rain coming from the sky, we're
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  Speaker 2: kind of upticking a little bit. There may be some
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  Speaker 2: spotty flash flooding from some of the heavier rain coming down.
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  Speaker 2: That would be from about the five boroughs and east
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  Speaker 2: out on the Long Island. So I'd be prepared for
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  Speaker 2: the low-lying areas to have standing water and maybe some
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  Speaker 2: other areas too, if you get those more persistent, heavier
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  Speaker 2: rain showers to potentially have some standing water in some spots.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, all hands on deck, Ray, because I am flying,
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  Speaker 1: actually trying to get through the eye of this nor'easter
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  Speaker 1: late tonight to get up to Marshall, New York, to
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  Speaker 1: join hundreds of others. We are surrounding the largest beagle
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  Speaker 1: facility in the world where they test, torture, and kill beagles.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to free the beagles. Am I going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to get there, though, going into the
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  Speaker 1: eye of this nor'easter?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you're heading near Utica, you're probably going
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  Speaker 2: Thruway all the way, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and then down to Marshall, it's 18 miles.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so you go to Thruway. As you go north,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to be okay. The showers will probably start
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  Speaker 2: working up the Hudson Valley about 10, 11 o'clock tonight,
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  Speaker 2: but they're just spotty, nothing too significant, right on through midnight.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe some steadier rain showers toward tomorrow morning up near Albany,
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  Speaker 2: and then as you go westbound, you go through the
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  Speaker 2: Mohawk Valley, you get around Little Falls and There may
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  Speaker 2: be some showers as we go through the day tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: and just a few showers around Utica and then around
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  Speaker 2: the Southern tier. So you should be fine getting there.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Ray, you're starting to worry me a little bit
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  Speaker 3: because I've sat next to meteorologists most of my life.
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  Speaker 3: And I've been through this story before where they talk
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  Speaker 3: early on about it looks like it's going to miss us.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like it's going to just be a safe event.
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  Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, well, there's going to
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  Speaker 3: be some coastal flooding. It's really not going to affect
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  Speaker 3: the rest of us that much. And then it pushes inland,
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  Speaker 3: and then it becomes a bigger story. Are we pretty
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  Speaker 3: set right now, or could this change over the next
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  Speaker 3: 24 hours?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, the first part of that is, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: as we get closer to the event, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: get better information. So that's where we are today. We
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  Speaker 2: are at a little bit higher level, at least from
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  Speaker 2: my concern, than we were yesterday. It was always a
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  Speaker 2: coastal flood event and a beach erosion thing. And I
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  Speaker 2: think we've layered on a little bit more concern about
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  Speaker 2: the wind and the rain.
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  Speaker 3: So....
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now with it coming a little further west and
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  Speaker 2: a little further inland, I'll obviously be concerned. I'd be
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  Speaker 2: prepared for a pretty tough weekend across the tri-state and
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  Speaker 2: eastern New England, too.
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  Speaker 3: So it could keep coming a little bit west and
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  Speaker 3: it could keep coming a little bit more inland is
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  Speaker 3: what you're saying?
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  Speaker 2: Believe it or not, it actually gets pretty close to
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  Speaker 2: the coast and kind of is a little nook between Jersey,
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  Speaker 2: New York City, Long Island, where Long Island goes out
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  Speaker 2: to the east. The low actually sits in there for
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, and that's why We'll get that persistent
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  Speaker 2: onshore flow. I would say right now, if there are
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  Speaker 2: going to be any changes to the forecast at this point,
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  Speaker 2: we're now, what, 12 hours out from the low being
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  Speaker 2: close to us maybe? There'll probably be small changes. I
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  Speaker 2: don't see any.
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  Speaker 3: We're up against the top of the hour. That was
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  Speaker 3: really a yes or no question, but thank you. We'll
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  Speaker 3: talk again tomorrow.