Sunny skies, warmer temps on way for weekend

After a nor'easter brought wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour to some parts of Long Island Friday, officials said they expect the wind and rain to dissipate and temperatures to warm up this weekend.

"Conditions will be improving throughout the day especially tonight into tomorrow," David Stark, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Upton, said Saturday morning. "Winds will start to weaken. We'll have mostly sunny skies throughout the day."

Stark said the storm, which brought wind and rain to most of the Island Friday, brought gusts of up 50 miles per hour to Bayville and gusts of up to 44 miles per hour to Long Island MacArthur Airport.

"It was a coastal storm that developed off the mid-Atlantic coast and rapidly intensified as it moved up," Stark said.

A Nassau County police spokeswoman said authorities had not received any information about damage caused by the storm. A Suffolk County police spokeswoman said the winds had taken down some trees and wires but had not caused any serious damage.

A spokesman from the Long Island Power Authority said there were several power outages as a result of the storm. As of 10:30 a.m. Saturday, about 1,090 LIPA customers were without power.

Stark said sunny skies are on the horizon. "Now it's starting to push up to the Northeast," he said of the storm. "It is going to be out of our concern in the next 24 hours."

Temperatures should be in the high 60s this afternoon and the low 40s tonight, he said.