Long Island weather forecast: Winter temperatures to return
While his dad, Brian Weir Jr., watches, Maddox Weir, 10, of West Hempstead, practices his motorbike skills in the parking lot of the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale on Saturday. Credit: Rick Kopstein
Long Island’s warm streak is ending Saturday as temperatures will fall from the 50s during the day to about 20 degrees at night, according to the National Weather Service.
The temperature was 52 degrees just before 2 p.m. Saturday under mostly cloudy skies in Islip before plunging to 30 degrees shortly before 10 p.m.
Winter temperatures will continue on Sunday, when the high will be 33 degrees under sunny skies, forecasters said. Temperatures are slated to remain below 40 degrees with sunny weather until Tuesday, the weather service said.
"Cold air will continue to filter into the area into tomorrow … So there will be a big shift in temperatures," meteorologist Matt Wunsch at the weather service said Saturday. "It will be dry throughout the first half of the week but it will be colder than we’ve seen through the past couple of days."
Rain and warmer temperatures will come back on Wednesday and continue through Thursday. The high temperatures for both days will be in the low 50s, according to the weather service.
"Our next chance at precipitation for the area really isn’t going to be until Wednesday afternoon … With that warmth comes more moisture," Wunsch said.
Sam Kmack covers the Town of Islip for Newsday. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and previously worked as a city watchdog reporter in the Phoenix metro area, as well as an investigative journalist at the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.
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