Long Island weather: Warmer but rain could be coming
Golfers practice at the driving range at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow on Friday. Credit: Howard Schnapp
Long Island is expected to see slightly warmer temperatures Saturday before a chance of rain moves into the region for the second half of the weekend.
Temperatures on Saturday are forecast to reach the low 70s with sunny skies during the day, but high winds and gusts topping 22 mph in some areas, according to the National Weather Service.
Though high temperatures are expected to rise about 10 degrees Saturday and Sunday, the high winds may stick around.
Possible downpours may arrive Sunday after 2 p.m. with about a 50% chance of showers Sunday night before 2 a.m., the forecasters said.
Nighttime temperatures over the next seven days will mainly hover in the 50s.
The effects of Hurricane Fiona, moving up the coast passed Canada, was causing high surf off Long Island.
A warning of high rip currents is in effect off the South Shore through Sunday evening.
The Atlantic Basin hurricane season, which runs until Nov. 30, appears to be heating up, with the National Hurricane Center also noting that Tropical Depression 9 might strike the eastern Gulf Coast around midweek if it swings north from Cuba.
The odds of showers in New York on Sunday afternoon are 30%, before they rise to 50% that night.
“Clouds will increase through the day out ahead of a warm front,” the weather service said. “A few showers will be possible Sunday afternoon, however, most of the precipitation should hold off until Sunday night.”
Any downpours will result from a low-pressure system descending from the Great Lakes, which could send another rain-creating pattern, a cold front, through New York on Tuesday, possibly dampening the skies, the weather service said.
However, those precipitation odds are low, so quite possibly sunny skies will prevail from Monday to Thursday, the weather service said.
Highs should be in the mid-70s Monday and Tuesday, before dropping to around 70 degrees Wednesday and into the upper 60s Thursday, the weather service said.
— With John Asbury
