内容摘要：to reduce the sky-high tariffs levied on each others’ goods, businesses in China are reacting to the temporary deal with caution.

to reduce the sky-high tariffs levied on each others’ goods, businesses in China are reacting to the temporary deal with caution.

Coastal flood advisories and gale warnings were issued for many coastal areas of New England and New York on Thursday.The storm was then expected to pass, leaving light rain and patchy drizzle, on Friday.

“It’s just really a nice dose of rain for the region — not expecting much for flooding,” Pederson said.Snow was expected to be confined to mountainous areas, but accumulations there were possible.Nor’easters are usually winter weather events, and it is unusual to see them in May. They typically form when there are large temperature differences from west to east during winter when there is cold air over land and the oceans are relatively warm.

But right now there is a traffic jam in the atmosphere because of an area of high pressure in the Canadian Arctic that is allowing unusually cold air to funnel down over the Northeast. The low pressure system off the East Coast is being fueled by a jet stream that is unusually south at the moment.“It really is a kind of a winter-type setup that you rarely see this late,” said Judah Cohen, seasonal forecast director at the private firm Atmospheric and Environmental Research.

If this type of pattern in the atmosphere happened two months earlier, he said, “we’d be talking about a crippling snowstorm in the Northeastern U.S., not just a wet start to Memorial Day weekend.”

O’Malley reported from Philadelphia.See more photos from the severe storms in the South and Midwest

Contributing were Associated Press writers Jennifer Peltz in New York, Sudhin Thanawala in Atlanta, Mike Catalini in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, Juan Lozano in Houston, and Seth Borenstein in Kensington, Maryland.WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer sentiment fell slightly in May for the fifth straight month, surprising economists, as Americans increasingly worry that President

will worsen inflation.The preliminary reading of the University of Michigan’s closely watched consumer sentiment index,