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While the city is between rainfalls this morning, Gothamist would like to issue several reminders:
- First, the sidewalks of New York are not the beach. Please do not use your six-foot wide beach umbrellas in the rain.
- Second, though it pains shy New Yorkers to make eye contact, please do watch where you are going while using your umbrella.
- Third, your outerwear and preciously coiffed head will survive thirty seconds of rainfall. Please do not stop half-way up the subway stairs to open your umbrella, especially if it is a beach-sized umbrella. Stopping on the stairs only serves to dampen and annoy your fellow subway riders and impedes the otherwise orderly ingress and egress to our vast underground transportation network.
There's a warm front parked just south of the city this morning, which is slowly moving northward over the next day. While that happens, a series of waves will run along the frontal boundary, kicking off rain showers when they are overhead. This morning's first wave produced over half an inch of rain. Another wave should arrive early this afternoon. The afternoon high will be around 50 degrees. With all the moisture there won't be any cooling tonight. Tomorrow's high may reach the mid- to upper-50s. Rain will mostly be confined to the morning hours tomorrow.
The sun returns, appropriately enough, on Sunday. It looks like Sunday's high will be in the mid-50s. The weather situation on Monday depends on whether the high pressure system in place by then is large enough to deflect a developing storm. The current best guess is that we'll see a mostly sunny and warm day.
8th St. subway station artwork photo by Gothamist
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I love that mosaic!
I can't stand the people with the umbrellas that have a 12 inch metal spike on the top. They always walk up the subway stairs with the umbrella closed and that spike pointed back at the person behind them.
I do love the good 'ole fashioned eye stabbers that New Yorkers love to carelessly toss about on rainy days.
Well, its not a subway post...
I cry foul! 'ist you snuck this in! sneak! stop now! this is about the weather, not about your pet umbrella peeves! belay whining there!
Those obnoxiously large umbrellas are usually golf umbrellas and more often than not, used by the smallest of people.
Umbrella etiquette does not exist in this city. Bane of my existence!!!
Umbrella etiquette the BANE of your existence? Wow man, chill out.
Wow, we're all about the etiquette posts this week!
Totally agree about the ginormous umbrellas though.
i haaaaaate the golf umbrella set!
Yeah, I don't know what to say about the recent rash of etiquette reminders on Gothamist. I'm the kind of person that thinks those with poor manners should be executed, but I also feel like I'm sort of being lectured. It's a paradox wrapped in an enigma!
god i hate umbrella users, those were great reminders joe. i also hate when umbrella users walk along the edges of buildings where the awnings are, blocking people who have been caught without unbrellas. selfish much?
oh, & chuzzlewit, complaining about the complaining is just lame.
I too share the umbrella hate. I understand of course, using one when it is really raining, but I find NYers open the thing up in even the lightest of drizzles. Spend some time in rainy European climates like London and Amsterdam. You almost never see umbrellas coming out unless it's absolutely pouring. Makes us all look like over pampered babies afraid of getting a bit damp. A good coat, and a hat goes a long way.
Preaching about etiquette, the new great way to generate page views and comments?
I admit I have one of those golf umbrellas, but I make a point of always "going high", out of respect for others. And I close it way before bus entry etc..
It is so damn large but it works so well.
Is that OK with the golf umbrella haters?
to FrankMartin- so long as you keep the umbrella high above your head enough that you're not catching people in the eye with its mighty spears, nor forcing people off the side of the sidewalk with its mighty girth, then I, as a golf-umbrella-hater, thank you. I might even like you as you spare me from several seconds of rain as your umbrella passes high above me.
Haha, this is great. I agree with all of them.
By, Always well high, and I love to share
I lived in New Orleans for many years and whenever it suddenly started to downpour, everyone's hands would immediately cover their cups of beer. Not their heads. No one cared about their hair getting wet, but they certainly didn't want their $1 beer getting watered down. Heh heh. What a great difference in cultures.
Thanks for posting these tips. I'm always amazed at how some people act like they're the only ones in the whole city.
Rainy days in the city make me realize what a crew of dwarves New Yorkers are. I always avoided the business school area in college on rainy days b/c everyone's umbrella would be at my eye level. And, yeah, you especially do not deserve a golf umbrella if you are under 5'4". Toads.
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