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Brrr, the morning breeze has brought on a bit of wind chill this morning. The low in Central Park was 39 but the wind pushed the apparent temperature down near freezing. Gusty northwest winds will bring plenty of cold air to the area today keeping the high to a brisk 50 degrees. If today's parade isn't enough to satisfy your Yankees fervor, consider what their World Series victory means for this winter's snowfall.

You may not have noticed at the time but a cold front passed through the city late yesterday afternoon. Sunny morning skies will gradually give way to afternoon clouds. Today's high will only reach the low 50s. It will be a chilly night for baseball. Look for temperatures in the mid 40s during the game.

It is shaping up to be a rather weak week for weather in New York. Today is looking cloudy and cool because a low pressure system way off to the southeast is providing easterly winds off the ocean. Look for a high in the mid 50s and the slight chance of light rain through the evening hours.

Short forecast: cool today, warm and wet tomorrow, sunny Sunday.

The leaves are beginning to turn. Frost covered much of the Hudson valley this morning. Fall has arrived in full. Today's high will stay in the upper 50s, almost ten degrees below normal, as a high pressure system slides across the region.

Look outside, this is what happens when a twisty thing meteorologists like to call a vorticity max runs over the top of a surface high pressure system. The vorticity max wants the atmosphere to come out and play but the air under the dome of high pressure is too cool, dry, and nebbishy to join the fun. The stalemate means a mix of sun, clouds and light showers for the rest of today. The Weather Service has been running warm on their temperature forecasts this week so we prefer the Weather Channel's high near 61.

If you want evidence that "nature abhors a vaccuum" step outside. The stiff easterly breeze is the atmosphere's attempt to balance out the pressure differences between the high over Nova Scotia and the low that's been slowly moving up the coast. Winds off the Atlantic mean the city will see a raw, rainy day with a high only in the mid 60s. The rain will likely be heavy at times and a tornado watch has been issued for the southern half of New Jersey.

This is about the dullest weather situation the city has had in months. There's still a weak low pressure system off the coast of North Carolina. It's trying to move northward but is being held in check by a high pressure system over Nova Scotia. Until that stalemate gets resolved the city is going to see cool and cloudy conditions with a slight chance of rain. There will be a fairly strong breeze off the ocean tomorrow and Friday, limiting highs both days to the mid 60s.

Following on the heels of Monday's first appearance of 90 degrees this summer, yesterday's high and low temperatures were both above normal. That's only the second time that both the max and min have been above normal on the same day since early June. How's that for obscure weather trivia!

Time to bring back an updated rain graph. It came down to the wire, but yesterday evening's intense shower did not have what it takes to become the rainiest June ever. For the record, 10.06 inches of rain fell on Central Park, a mere 0.21 less than 2003. That's nearly triple the normal amount! One local news outlet prattled on today about how there was more rain in New York than Seattle last month, conveniently not mentioning that Seattle is almost always drier than NYC in June. Adding to the joy, last month was also the eighth coolest June since records began in 1851.

June 12th. The temperature has not been above normal since June 12th. Today threatens to be the first warmer than average day in more than two weeks. This morning's low was 65 degrees. The mercury at Belvedere Castle will need to climb to the predicted high of 85 in order for us to break the cool weather streak. Believe it or not, there is only a slight chance of a shower or thunderstorm this afternoon.

Pulitzer Prize committee take note, the Times has discovered that June has been rainy and that people don't go to the beach when it rains. It has rained a lot the past couple of weeks. How does that rain compare to previous Junes? Let's make a graph of day-by-day rainfall accumulation!

Some days Mother Nature throws the good stuff at you and some days she's got nothing but junk. Despite the holiday, today is a junk day. There's a cruddy-looking stationary front stretching from the East coast back to the Rockies this morning. The front will slowly sink south of the city the next couple of days. A series of upper level disturbances, artistically depicted above, along the front is a near guarantee of showers and thunderstorms through Friday.

The weather is just not bringing it for the first half of the week. Maybe yesterday's winds tired it out. Don't worry, there will be fronts and shortwaves and all that stuff but they're all looking kind of weak until Thursday.

Bone dry air has moved into town following Saturday's half-inch of rain, no doubt aiding and abetting yesterday's Staten Island brush fires. As the winds died down the lack of humidity allowed the temperature to plummet overnight. This morning's lows bottomed out near the freezing mark across the city. The dry air mass will move eastward today, allowing the mercury to rebound to almost 60 this afternoon (BTW, could NY1's weather page be any worse?). It should be in the mid 50s when Mike Pelfrey throws the first pitch at Citi Field's regular season debut.

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 high should reach the breezy mid 60s.

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.

      

We may be bidding farewell to Yankee Stadium, but there is a new (old) Yankee Stadium emerging: LEGO artist Sean Kenney, along with help from a grade schooler, has been working on a replica of the stadium for the past few years. He writes, "It will be complete in the next few months; these preview photos give you an in-progress look at the sculpture. The sculpture is 5 feet wide and 5 feet long, built to an approximate scale of 1:150."

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 weekend as the high moves eastward. The wind shift will warm the city into the lower 70s tomorrow and maybe up to 80 by Sunday. There's a slight chance we'll see some clouds tomorrow morning and again on Sunday.

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 possibly into the 40s on eastern Long Island.

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.

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 today, but any real chance of rain will have to wait until tomorrow.

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 reach the mid 70s. Tomorrow's high may creep into the low 80s.

There may be a stray shower or two this morning but most of the rain has moved eastward. The rest of the day will remain cool and cloudy as the cold front that passed brought last night's rain goes stationary over southern New Jersey. The front isn't going to do much of anything until late Thursday. Showers are possible again tonight and tomorrow morning. Highs today and tomorrow will be in the lower 70s at best.

Today promises to be much calmer than yesterday. Tuesday saw a brief taste of summer before an brief and intense squall line reminded us that it was still spring. This afternoon's sunny high will be a cool 68ish as a high pressure system arrives from the Midwest. After a cool night tonight -lows should be in the lower 50s in town and may dip into the 30s in interior regions of the tri-state area. Tomorrow should be warmer, with a high in the mid-70s. Sunny skies will make for perfect Manhattanhenge viewing conditions.

The month of May is remaining stubbornly cool. While the first four months of the year were all warmer than average, this month is running nearly two degrees below normal. This week will keep the month on its cool streak. The normal high for today is 72. The mix of wind, clouds, sun and possibly a shower this afternoon will keep the maximum for today to the mid-60s at best. That's nowhere near the record high of 99 set in 1962.

Sometimes the atmosphere gets stuck in a rut. The typical size and speed of high and low pressure systems means they should pass through the northeastern U.S. every few days. The pattern would rarely be noticed should it rain every five days as that would mean rain today, next Wednesday and the Monday after that. But when the repeat button is set for every seven days and the rainy days turn out to be Friday and Saturday people take notice.

              

The Bronx houseboat, measuring in at only 250-square-feet, really should have cleaned up ship and entered this contest.

Today marks the sixth straight cool day and it looks like it will take until Monday for seasonable temperatures to return. A minor atmospheric skirmish will keep temperatures down through the weekend. In one corner a warm front is approaching from the south. In another corner a high pressure system is slinking down from eastern Canada. It appears that the high will cause the warm front to stall before it passes through the city, leaving us on the cool, wet side of things.

It's Double Weather Awareness Week! Not only is this Severe Weather Awareness Week it is also National Air Quality Week. New York doesn't get thunderstorms and tornadoes with the frequency and ferocity seen in the Southeast and Midwest, but last summer's tornado in Brooklyn is a reminder that tornadoes can and do happen here.