A strong early-season nor'easter — a storm blowing from the northeast — battered the US East Coast over the weekend. It brought heavy winds, rain, coastal flooding and dangerous rip currents from North Carolina through New England.

One fatality was confirmed. A 56-year-old New York City Housing Authority employee was struck and killed by a falling tree in a Brooklyn parking lot on Saturday. He was pronounced dead at Brookdale University Hospital.

Nearly 150,000 households lost electricity over the weekend, according to PowerOutage.US. By Sunday afternoon, about 110,500 remained without power, with New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts hit hardest. More than 5,000 US flights were delayed and nearly 550 were cancelled, per FlightAware, including about 130 cancellations at Boston Logan on Saturday.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency covering the Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk and Westchester counties. Context: the storm tested emergency plans across the Northeast, and forecasters are watching whether another system forms behind it.