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Today's weather forecast features an exciting race between the remnants of surprising Hurricane Humberto and the Canadian Crusher, a massive, cool, dry air mass that has already captured the Great Plains and is quickly moving our way. Humberto, who reminded everyone that there's still a lot to learn about tropical storms, intensified from a tropical depression to a full-fledged hurricane in only 14 hours, is now just a big mess of moisture centered over northern Alabama.

The clouds are rolling in and the sky has a threatening look to it this afternoon, but looks can be deceiving. We're very likely to see light rain beginning around 4:00 p.m and lasting until midnight at the latest. Don't worry if you forgot to bring an umbrella to work. With little wind, the cheap umbrellas that magically appear for sale on the street on days like today should last throughout the evening.

This morning's golf weather tip from weather.com, for reasons unknown to Gothamist they think we are a golf fanatic, is: Watch for wet turf. We didn't see any turf, let alone wet turf, but we did get drenched on our crosstown walk this morning. Two-and-a-half inches of rain have fallen since last night. Half of that rain in just the past few hours. The rain, easterly winds, and rapidly melting snow across the region have led to numerous incidents of urban and small stream flooding, in turn leading to many traffic and transit delays.

The weather today is a near repeat of yesterday, which was almost an exact repeat of Monday and only slightly different from Sunday. Tomorrow, however, the weather will be different. How will tomorrow be different? It will be cloudy and cooler. It may not even reach 80. There may be rain tomorrow night, but there's only a slight chance. For Friday and the weekend the forecast is iffy. Oh, the weather doesn't look too bad, it's the forecast itself that's iffy. Cloudy and cool, sunny and cool and sunny and mild are all equally likely at this point! Gothamist believes the latter will occur but only because of our simple-minded optimism.

Last month tied January 1913 as the fourth warmest January on record. The average temperature in Central Park was 40.9 degrees, 8.8 degrees above normal. Much of the Midwest and Great Plains had their warmest January's ever. The warm trend continues into February but for how long? The clouds are giving us warmus interruptus today but tomorrow will be a sunny, warm mid-winter day. The sunshine means that Staten Island Chuck will see his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter. Gothamist hopes whatever local dignitary helps Chuck with his duties tomorrow morning asks the rodent if "six more weeks of winter" means more of the same or a return to real winter weather.

The temperatures have been going up, up, up, up since Friday barely made it above freezing. The sun has broken through this afternoon and busted the Weather Service and Weather Channel forecasts. AccuWeather got it right, though, by forecasting a high of 63 degrees. No need for gloves tonight. Thanks to fog, our low temperatures will remain in the mid-50s tonight. That’s several degrees higher than our normal high temperatures.

Pity poor Gothamist, this time last week we were enjoying our last day in pleasantly cool Alaska, writing our name in the snow, only to return to the tropical steambath that New York has become. The steam is going to be around for a couple more days, with tomorrow being more unpleasant than today. Conditions may be ripe tomorrow for an official heat advisory. Today, though, the Weather Service is just giving us a friendly special weather statement. To beat the heat read these tips from the NYC Department of Emergency Management. You can always stay cool by visiting the uptown Fairway's refrigerated room or MoMA, which seemingly are kept at about the same temperature.