Long Island weather: Rain, warm temperatures through the weekend
A woman jogs at Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018. Credit: Ed Betz
If you’re looking for nice weather, look to Monday, as this weekend will feature rain on and off till you put your work clothes back on.
Then you can hang up the raincoat. Cloudy skies are expected to give way to scattered rain Saturday afternoon, said Jay Engle, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Upton.
The skies will turn on the faucet again after midnight Saturday, he added. And Sunday will feature more scattered rain with areas of fog.
Pat Cavlin, a meteorologist with News 12 Long Island, agrees.
“Today we’ll see clouds by midday and rain by the afternoon,” he said. “Highs will be in the mid-50s. Steady rain tonight into tomorrow with highs in the upper 40s.”
Gusty easterly winds are likely late Saturday through Sunday afternoon as a frontal system moves across the region.
This weekend’s higher-than-normal temperatures could make it difficult deciding what to wear. Saturday will get into the low 50s, and Sunday will be in the high 40s. Those are about 5 to 10 degrees above the norm.
So you don’t want to put on your winter coat or you’ll feel all muggy inside it. And just a sweater won’t do because of the rain.
“Fall-type apparel,” Engle recommended. “Maybe a layered windbreaker.”
If you’re going boating, be careful, as the weather service has issued a small craft advisory for high seas with gusts above about 30 mph on Long Island Sound, Great South Bay and Peconic Bay.
They also issued a gale watch for the eastern ocean waters, meaning there could be high seas with winds gusting over about 40 mph.
These are in effect Saturday through Sunday evening.
Dry weather will return early in the week, with temperatures in the low to mid-50s during the day, reaching down to the low to mid-30s at night.
“Monday and Tuesday will feature lots of sunshine,” Engle said.
Craig Schneider is a Long Island native and Stony Brook University alumnus. He joined Newsday as a general assignment reporter in January 2018 after 20 years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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