Long Island weather forecast: Dry but cool for Halloween
Cars plow through a street puddle Monday morning left in Riverhead by overnight and morning rain Credit: Tom Lambui
Better hope those Halloween costumes are warm ones.
The National Weather Service is calling for sunshine and a little dose of reality for the Halloween holiday on Tuesday.
Will the weather be a trick or treat?
Try a little of both, with the weather service predicting mostly sunny skies for Tuesday, Halloween, but a high of just 52 degrees, with the temperature dropping to only about 40 degrees Tuesday night. The average high on Oct. 31 in Islip is 59 degrees and the average low is 42 degrees.
It was only Saturday that the temperature set a record high in Islip of 83 degrees. The high Monday was 63 degrees just after 1 p.m.
The wind Tuesday should be from the north at 7 to 10 mph.
"The coldest day of the fall is expected on Tuesday with high-pressure building over the area. Temperatures will struggle to rise above 50 degrees and highs should be about 10 degrees below normal," according to the area forecast.
Wednesday there is a slight chance of rain before 10 a.m. and then again after 3 p.m. with partly sunny skies in between and a high temperature near 51 degrees, according to the weather service.
Overnight lows figure to drop into the low 40s and even the 30s all week. Don’t expect temperatures to return to the 60s until Saturday, the weather service said.
The bad news? The record high for Halloween recorded in Islip was 73 degrees in 2004 — and this Halloween figures to be at least 20 degrees cooler than that. The good news? The all-time low recorded in Islip was a frigid 23 degrees, set on Halloween in 1966.
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