Long Island weather forecast: Sunny after a day of rain
Cheryl Furman walks her 9-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever, Moose, in the rain in Bellport on Saturday morning. Credit: Tom Lambui/Tom Lambui
Saturday evening the daylong rain finally ended on Long Island but not before dumping more than three inches in some places.
Not a drop will fall from the skies Sunday, forecasters said.
By 7 p.m. Saturday, 3.84 inches of rain had fallen in East Meadow, the highest total in Nassau County, according to the National Weather Service. Fort Salonga led Suffolk County with 3.70 inches as of 8:23 p.m.
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The temperature rose to 52 degrees in Islip just before 3 p.m. Saturday. By just before 9 p.m. the thermometer was down to 39 degrees.
The weather service also had issued a high wind advisory for much of the region Saturday.
PSEG Long Island said as of 10 p.m. Saturday it had 21 active electric service outages affecting 170 customers. As of 6:15 p.m. it had 13 outages affecting 1,345 customers.
Sunday will be sunny, with a high near 45 degrees, and a north wind will blow at 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph, the weather service said.
The forecast for Sunday night calls for partly cloudy skies with a low temperature around 31 degrees.
Monday, the start of the new workweek, should feature mostly sunny skies with a high near 50 degrees. At night under a full moon poking out through some clouds, a low of around 36 is expected.
Tuesday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 50 degrees and a low around 40, according to the weather service.
