Long Island weather: No break from the rain from Monday night until Tuesday evening

Steady rain will fall on Long Island Monday night through Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service said. 

But Tuesday will bring clearing skies as evening falls, the weather service said.

"High pressure clears skies and brings cooler, more seasonable lows and gusty winds for Tuesday night," the service said in its regional summary. "Another frontal system will approach the area and increase cloud
cover on Wednesday. Precipitation will return Wednesday night into Thursday, with a wintry mix inland and rain near the coast."

Overnight lows in the mid-to-upper 30s are in the works for Tuesday into Wednesday and Wednesday into Thursday, but the weather service is calling for a high of 50 degrees Thursday.

Along with more rain.

But then, temperatures are expected to change dramatically Thursday night into Friday, when frigid weather arrives.

The weather service is calling for an overnight low of just 20 degrees overnight into Friday and a high of just 29 degrees during the day Friday.

Overnight lows Friday into Saturday will barely crack the low teens, the weather service said.

Meanwhile, a small craft advisory was in effect Monday until 6 p.m. for the Long Island Sound east of Port Jefferson, as well as all South Shore bays and inlets from Jones Inlet out through Shinnecock Bay, with the advisory in effect to Montauk Point until 6 a.m. Tuesday.

By John Valenti

john.valenti@newsday.com

John Valenti, a reporter at Newsday since 1981, has been honored nationally by the Associated Press and Society of the Silurians for investigative, enterprise and breaking news reporting, as well as column writing, and is the author of “Swee'pea,” a book about former New York playground basketball star Lloyd Daniels. Valenti is featured in the Emmy Award-winning ESPN 30-for-30 film “Big Shot.”