flooded area of Battery Park in Manhattan A woman takes a picture of a flooded area of Battery Park in New York, on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. (Photo: Peter Foley/Bloomberg)

The first "nor'easter-type" storm of the season will bring widespread rain, gusty winds and the possibility of coastal flooding starting Friday in New Jersey and New York — and then forecasters say it'll head north to New England.

Washington, New York, Philadelphia and Boston are likely to get 1 to 2 inches (2 to 5 centimeters) of rain as the storm moves northeast, said Marc Chenard, a senior branch forecaster with the U.S. Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.

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