Long Island weather: A sandwich with rain early, late, sun in middle
Bike buddies Sara Lapine, 27, of Levittown and Ameer Abidi, 28, of East Meadow take a break in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow on Friday. Credit: Newsday/Howard Simmons
Saturday, Long Island could to see thunderstorms early and late with some sun in between.
The National Weather Service said Friday evening that there was a chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9 a.m. Saturday, then mostly cloudy skies gradually becoming sunny with a high temperature near 88 degrees, and finally a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3 p.m. A west wind should blow 7 to 9 mph and the chance of precipitation is 50%.
Saturday night there is a 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms with a low temperature around 67 degrees, the weather service said.
Sunday, Father's Day, is expected to be mostly sunny with a high near 87 degrees.
Every day of the coming workweek looks to be sunny to mostly sunny except for Tuesday when there is a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
The high temperature on Monday is expected to be near 85 degrees, but the highs for the rest of the week should be a degree or two either side of 80, the weather service said.
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