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This afternoon's temperature has been bouncing up and down as the sun struggles to come out behind the cruddy clouds. This morning's clouds were leftover from a bit of convective activity to our south last night. A line of showers is approaching the city from the west. Some of those showers may be intense, as they hit the city later this afternoon and into the evening.

The Fire Department has been working with the US Naval Research Laboratory to develop transmitting chips for firefighter's gear that will allow electronic tracking of firefighters on the scene of a blaze. The chip would have to withstand the heat, smoke and water found while fighting a fire. It would be activated when a firefighter boards a truck to respond to a call.

The decided lack of rain yesterday made for two consecutive blown precipitation forecasts. A hundredth of an inch fell in Central Park, which was not exactly what we had in mind. Ah, well, Gothamist will give it another go today. Today's forecast is easy: Cooler, a few clouds this afternoon, but the air below those clouds is so dry there won't be any rain. Tonight: Clear and cool, low in the lower 50s. Tomorrow is even easier: Sunny and cool, high around 70. Warmer weather will return when the high pressure system moves out to sea. The weekend is currently looking warmer, but rainy.

What was the name of that band that did the "Three Strange Days" song in the early-90s? Didn't they have "fish" in their name? The song came to Gothamist's mind as we were walking across town this morning thinking that New York is in for three days of beautiful weather. If you like sunny, warm spring days the rest of the week is for you. Depending on who you trust, today will be sunny and near 60 or sunny, with a high near 65. Tomorrow and Friday: Sunny, high in the mid-60s.

Here's what New York looks like from space this morning. Satellite instruments that observe the weather are nothing more than very sophisticated, very expensive digital cameras. The images we normally see on television come from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES. GOES is positioned 22,300 miles (35,800 km) above the equator. At that distance the satellite is in a geosynchronous orbit --it stays above the same spot on the Earth. The National Weather Service has two operational GOES satellites in orbit: GOES-East over the western Atlantic and GOES-West over the eastern Pacific.