On This Date: A Second Round Of Rain Smashed October Records In Northeast Jonathan ErdmanOctober 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM 0 This week's nor'easter could have been worse in at least one aspect. On Oct.
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Jonathan ErdmanOctober 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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This week's nor'easter could have been worse in at least one aspect.
On Oct. 14, 2005, 20 years ago today, the Northeast was being soaked by the second round of torrential rain in a one-week stretch that pushed aside previous October rainfall records.
In this case, low pressure sat off the Northeast Seaboard for five days before it finally shifted north over New Brunswick, Canada, and put an end to the Northeast drenching.
Four to 8 inches of rain fell from New Jersey into New England, flooding rivers and stressing dams and reservoirs. Among the worst of the flooding was in the Raritan, Passaic and Delaware river basins. Flooding prompted 1,500 evacuations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Flooding along the Blackstone River in Rhode Island was the worst in 50 years, since the combination of Connie and Diane in 1955.
One week earlier, remnant moisture from Tropical Storm Tammy combined with a stationary front and wrung out the first round of torrential rain in the Northeast.
Yet more heavy rain one week later easily made it the wettest October on record in New England, New Jersey, New York and Delaware. October 2005 was the wettest single month on record in Allentown, Pennsylvania (13.47 inches); Newark, New Jersey (13.22 inches); and Providence, Rhode Island (15.38 inches). It's still the record-wettest month since 1868 in Concord, New Hampshire (14.57 inches).
Unless your area was impacted, you might not remember this flood. It happened in the midst of the historic 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Just one day later, Tropical Depression Twenty-Four formed in the western Caribbean Sea. It would soon be named Wilma and become the most intense Atlantic hurricane by pressure on record.
Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been covering national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Reach out to him on Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook.
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