Photo of the GWB from langnewspaper on Flickr It took a while to work up the courage, but a shy high pressure system has finally made its presence known. The anticyclone's faltering first steps this weekend allowed some rain to fall early Sunday morning and it drizzled a bit over the city this morning as well. That drizzle is gone and the city should see clear skies for the next couple of days. Today's......

Today's weather action is all from a low pressure system that's centered near Hudson's Bay and a few miles up in the atmosphere. A disturbance being tossed around by that low has brought clouds to the city this morning and maybe a sprinkle or two this afternoon. There's a good band of rain stretching from Pittsburgh into New Hampshire. Dry air at lower levels of the atmosphere will minimize any rainfall around the city. Skies......

lift by j0hng4lt on Flickr Ignore that last forecast! One storm went left, the other went right and the city barely got any rain over the weekend. The mix of sun and clouds we've seen today should switch over to mostly clouds by late-afternoon as a weak cold front passes by. There's a slight chance that the front's passage will kick off a shower or two, especially over Long Island. This particular front won't......

Hotel Chelsea Rain by lensjockey on Flickr What a freakin' mess! A one-two punch of storms will bring heavy rain to the city through tomorrow and likely into Sunday. The rain will make it difficult to play a game tonight at Shea. Conditions are looking only slightly better for tomorrow night. Triple-header Sunday! This morning's rain is from moist air being blown northward from a pseudo-nor'easter-type-storm over South Carolina. The storm remains far away......

Today is the last day to enjoy the current dry spell. The high pressure system that's given the city clear skies is beginning to move away. Before it leaves we should have a sunny and seasonable day with a high in the lower 70s.. Rain looks like it will arrive tomorrow afternoon, ending twelve straight days without precipitation. The rain is courtesy of an extratropical low pressure system that's off the coast of the Carolinas......

Today is the fall equinox! Everywhere on earth gets twelve hours of daylight today. The equinox occurs at precisely 11:44:16 this morning. That's fourty-four minutes and sixteen seconds after eleven a.m. Yikes! For a second there we were channelling Phil Schaap. The next few days don't look very exciting weatherwise. That's good as dull weather in September is usually quite lovely. A barely perceptible cold front moved through the region last night. As the winds......

Co-op City Moon by Somebody Shouted McIntyre on Flickr Nearly perfect weather is in store for the last weekend of summer. Easterly winds circulating around a high pressure system centered over the Bay of Fundy will keep the city cool today. Expect a high only in the upper 60s this afternoon. The last time the city failed to reach 70 degrees was on May 28th. Winds will shift in a clockwise direction through the......

Pinhole photograph from gmpicket on Flickr After a cool August, September is running more than three degrees warmer than normal. That flip has largely been due to the incursion of hot and humid air dragged this far northward by Hanna and Ike. Yesterday's oppressive humidity, the dew point reached an icky 73 degrees, has been ushered away by an early morning cold front. The cool air behind the front won't get here until tomorrow, so......

In 1900 the barrier island city Galveston was the shiny, growing metropolis of the Texas coast. Houston was a swampy backwater. On September 8th of that year a hurricane struck Galveston, killing over 6000 people in the city (10,000 - 12,000 overall) and destroying 3600 buildings. In the rebuilding process the city of Galveston was raised several feet and a seawall was erected to protect the city. The 15-25-foot high storm surge later today from......

from Manhattan of Manhattan by michaeldillingham on Flickr Almost half an inch of rain fell during yesterday's dramatic thunderstorms. The weather today and tomorrow won't be nearly as dramatic. Mostly clear skies, with a few non-threatening cumulus, and slightly cooler than normal temperatures should be the rule until Friday. We can expect a high in the mid to low 70s on both days. Tonight's low should drop to the 50s in the city and......

How would you like to enjoy two seasons in one week? Well, you don't have much choice if you're in the city for the next few days. Today will be a sunny and mild summer-like day with a high in the low 80s. While Hanna didn't have much impact Saturday night, the swells from the storm will be generating rip currents today. Tomorrow will be a transition day. A strong cold front is approaching and......

The good news about Tropical Storm Hanna: No major damage was reported. The bad new: She dumped "a month's worth of rain within hours"--more than three inches that flooded buildings and highways, delayed flights and put the U.S. Open on pause. The Post has a photograph of a city bus trudging "through the flood waters" and also reports that Ninth Street in Carroll Gardens was "a lake." Northeastern NJ and Long Island got around 6......

And you may ask yourself where is that terrible wind. And you may ask yourself how much rain will fall. And you may ask yourself when it will get here. As the day goes by Hanna will be in town. The storm made landfall late over North Carolina last night, is now centered over Chesapeake Bay, and is zipping up the coast. Rain ahead of the storm center extends into eastern Pennsylvania and southern New......

If you have tickets to today's Mets-Phillies game, don't bother heading out to Shea Stadium. The impending arrival of Tropical Storm Hanna has pushed today's game to Sunday at 2:15PM, part of a day-night doubleheader. Tickets for today's game will be honored for the day game. The night game was previously scheduled for an 8:05PM start for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball. Today's postponement gives Jamie Moyer and Pedro Martinez an extra day's rest before they......

Satelllite image of tropical storm Hanna from NOAA September is National Preparedness Month. Are you ready for tropical storm Hanna? While today is an enjoyably warm and sunny September day, tomorrow will be anything but. Today's high should be in the breezy, humid mid-80s. Clouds should arrive this evening and rain should follow, perhaps as early as midnight tonight. If Hanna continues on the predicted path, the city could be in for lots of......

Gustav, Hanna, Ike and Josephine posing for a NOAA satellite image The weather forecast for today and tomorrow is relatively straightforward but the crystal ball gets all sorts of cloudy beginning Friday. A coastal low off of New England may trigger a few isolated showers this afternoon and evening. Otherwise expect a mix of sun and clouds with a high in the mid 80s. Clouds will give way to sun tomorrow and the thermometer......

Hurricane Gustav and Tropical Storm Hanna in a water vapor satellite image from NOAA. Not much happening in New York City weather today, or much of this week for that matter. A high pressure system parked upstate should keep things sunny, warm and dry through Thursday. Expect highs in the mid 80s each day. Wear plenty of sunscreen if you're going out to the West Indian American Day parade today. Next weekend we may......

Almost 2 million residents along the Lousiana coast have evacuated the region as Hurricane Gustav is expected to hit today. After his mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, Mayor Ray Nagin revealed he would be staying in the city, sleeping in City Hall. Nagin also warned, "Looters will go directly to jail. You will not get a pass this time. You will not have a temporary stay in the city. You will go directly to the......

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered the mandatory evacuation of the city for Sunday morning--the West Bank by 8.a.m. and the East Bank by noon. According to The Times-Picayune, Nagin called Gustav "the mother of all storms...We want 100 percent evacuation. It has the potential to impact every area of this metropolitan... This is worse than a Betsy, worse that a Katrina... You need to be scared and you need to get your butts......

One of the best sunsets we've ever seen by g0thamg1rl on Flickr Kind of a half-assed weather day today. There's enough moisture and an upper-level disturbance to produce a thick layer of clouds, but not enough of a disturbance to wring some of that moisture out of the atmosphere. So, we're looking at overcast skies that will keep the temperature down in the mid 70s this afternoon. There may be a sprinkle or two......

Koons on the Roof by laverrue on Flickr Today is shaping up to be a beautiful late-summer day. A high pressure system centered over Montreal will keep all but a few high clouds from the storm system formerly known as Fay well to the south of the city. The high today will be in the mid- to upper-70s. The warming from more southerly winds tomorrow will likely be balanced by more clouds to once again......

The first line of the Weather Service's forecast discussion contains all you need to know about the forecast "High pressure will remain over the region through Sunday." There is no chance of rain and barely the chance for a cloud to appear for the next several days. The high will be to the west of the city today and tomorrow, allowing lots of cool dry air to filter into town. The high today will only......

Sort of. After eleven days of at or below normal temperatures, a huge high pressure system that covers the entire country east of the Rockies and north of Florida, will bring sunny, warm weather back to New York today. The high on this increasingly humid day should be in the upper 80s if not 90 degrees. Hailing the possible return of the 90 degree mark we made a graph! So far 2008 has had......

Last night, the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for the area. While we didn't see one, there were "heavy rains, hail and lightning" enough to mess up commutes on highways and the rails. Metro-North, LIRR, and NJ Transit all faced delays. Additionally, the rain prompted the Nassau County Health Department to close its beaches as a precaution--they may be close tomorrow, too (call and check).......

Um, those deathly looking clouds you see? Probably why a tornado warning is in effect. According to WNBC, the warning is for "Manhattan, the Bronx and Eastern Bergen counties until 5:45 p.m. and for Southern Westchester County until 6 p.m." Per the National Weather Service: "TORNADO WARNING FOR...SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK... UNTIL 600 PM EDT...AT 520 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR......

Sunset Streaks by ixtayul on Flickr An entertaining, and possibly very wet, weather situation is developing for today. Normally, synoptic scale cold and warm fronts that stretch for hundreds of miles don't collide with one another. They are just the boundaries between colliding blobs of air. A tired old cold front sits just to the west of the city this morning. Acting alone the front might kick off a few showers as it slowly......

Weather over Manhattan by trawin on Flickr The series of photos above were taken a few minutes apart as a rain storm moved over Manhattan earlier in the week. No such storms today. A high pressure system has brought dry air and a lot of subsidence to the city. The result will be a sunny and mild start to the day with a high right around the normal of 83. That's quite a change......

A listener sent 1010WINS photographs of the hail in her Whitestone, Queens yard. There's a rather adorable gallery of her kids amazed at the hail stones and even posing with buckets of it! Newsday reports the hail was "caused by strong updrafts that suspended raindrops in the chilly upper atmosphere until they froze," according to a meteorologist who also said it was unusual for such large hail. Some neighborhoods all over the NYC-area suffered flooding......

Saturday's sunset by badison of Flickr The flood advisory and severe thunderstorm warning have both expired. Nearly an inch of rain fell in Central Park, while 1.64 inches soaked LaGuardia this morning. The rain is quickly moving out of the city, but there's a possibility for more storms later this afternoon. This morning's rain, and yesterday afternoon's half-hearted attempt at a storm, are being flung at the city by an upper level low pressure system......

The National Weather Service just issued an "URBAN FLOOD ADVISORY" for NYC (except Staten Island) until 11:30 a.m., noting that thunderstorms in the area may produce 1.5 inches of rain/hour and will cause street and highway flooding. And maybe subway flooding? Yikes. Update: While the storm seems to be over, there's a bit of flooding in certain areas, namely the FDR Drive. Some vehicles are disabled due to a foot of water on the......