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Aye, the easterly wind... Weak low pressure southeast of the city means we're in for several days of dingy gray weather. The ocean winds will produce a thick blanket of stratus clouds which will keep the temperature nearly steady in the upper 40s to lower 50s through tomorrow. To add to the rawness there may be periods of drizzle or light rain between this afternoon and Tuesday morning.

Today's weather is courtesy of a classic air battle. To the north is a high pressure system centered over New Brunswick. Off Cape Hatteras is a low pressure system that used to be hurricane Ida. In between is the Atlantic Coast from Maryland to Massachussetts where the fringes of ex-Ida are bashing into the calm Canadian. The pressure gradient between the two means the Jersey Shore is taking a pounding. Sustained, gale force, onshore winds are responsible for coastal flood warnings in New Jersey and coastal flood advisories for much of Long Island Sound and city's Atlantic beaches.

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.

Pretty much an average day today as high pressure hovers over southern New England. More sun than clouds this morning and more clouds than sun this afternoon as the temperature heads up to near 60 degrees. Very pleasant for Winter Weather Awareness Week.

Good news baseball fans! The steady rain should be gone by this evening. Over 1.5 inches of rain has fallen since yesterday, but the storm bringing that precipitation is starting to head out to sea. A few showers are expected through the afternoon but they should diminish to a drizzle by game time. Temperatures will remain steady in the mid 50s through the evening.

Today would be a great day for a World Series game. Sunny with seasonable temperatures topping out in the low 60s thanks to a high pressure system. Tomorrow's temperatures will remain seasonable but it will be mostly cloudy and light rain is expected later in the day. Not great baseball weather but the Yankees and Phillies would definitely get the game in if the series started tomorrow.

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

You'll need more than a bonnet to fend off at three, possibly four, storms that will pass our way in rapid succession. The low responsible for the rain and snow so far is moving further out to sea. Rain should diminish this afternoon and evening as a result. Oh, it will still be cold and windy at Yankee stadium this evening and rain showers may return as the game progresses. Game time temperature will be in the lower 40s, but the wind will make it feel more like the mid 30s.

Clear skies, a cool north breeze, today's weather looks so innocent. Ha! While it may be a sunny 55 this afternoon, tomorrow looks to be a meteorological crapfest. The upper level winds are changing from a west-to-east pattern, which has brings a succession of uneventful high and low pressure systems, to a more wavy north-south pattern. The changing pattern will bring about the first nor'easter of the season a bit ahead of schedule.

Today's rain is courtesy of a warm front moving up the east coast. A few episodes of light rain are possible before the front passes through town around the time the Yankees take the field. The clouds ahead of the slow-moving front will keep today's high in the upper 60s. If that's not warm enough for you hop on the next NJ Transit train to Trenton, where it will be in the upper 70s.

The clear skies we were looking forward to during the day yesterday finally arrived after midnight and departed around sunrise. Sigh. The sun will make a few brief appearances today but is going into hiding again tomorrow as a cold front begins to push this stubborn high pressure system out to sea.

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.

The mercury is making a valiant run into the mid 70s this afternoon. Sunlight in late September isn't strong enough to warm us up all by itself, a helper breeze out of the south is needed to drag warmer air this far north. Here's the catch: The southerly wind is ahead of a cold front which will cool the city down for the remainder of the week.

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.

Ack! There's way too much going on in the weather department. For brevity's sake the activity can be boiled down to one word: rain. Looking at the satellite image above you can see three rainmakers: Tropical Storm Danny off the coast, a bunch of tropical moisture along the East Coast, and a bunch of clouds associated with a cold front that stretches from Michigan down to Texas.

              

Hey everyone, we forgot that the Apocalypse was scheduled for today. Strollers are being frantically pushed to safety in Park Slope, the sky appears divided from the UWS, and things aren't looking so good for the commute home. Sadly, the clouds popping up are more threatening than the gorgeous mammatus clouds we saw earlier this summer. Send us your photos before it all goes down!

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!

From the National Weather Service, a "Special Weather Statement": "Strong thunderstorms will move into New York City between 1 and 2 PM... At 1134 am EDT...National Weather Service Doppler radar was tracking a long line of strong thunderstorms extending from west central New Jersey southward to northern Delaware moving northeast at 40 mph. Thunderstorms will first move into Staten Island around 1 PM and then into the rest of the city by 130 PM. Cloud to ground lightning is expected along with wind gusts up to 40 mph. In addition...heavy rains will likely result in ponding on roadways." So, it's another stormy Sunday!

Good news, New Yorkers. There's a new umbrella in town that is sure to help sidewalk rage during these rainy days we've been having. Aptly called "the Polite Umbrella," you can shrink it on either side as other pedestrians walk by. In the designer's own words, it's "a shrinkable umbrella that enables users to morph its shape in order to reduce occupied space and to increase user maneuverability. Users can easily adjust their umbrellas anytime by pulling a handle so that they can protect themselves from harsh winds or bumping into others." There's a demonstration in a video on the site, but no info on where to buy it! So, keep stabbing each other with your non-polite umbrellas we suppose. NewYorkology has more New York-centric umbrella options, but none quite as polite. [via Kellas]

If you were caught in this morning's rain and thought it was heavy wait a few hours! A warm front is slowly making it's way northward today. Showers and thunderstorms ahead of the front should arrive this afternoon and last through the evening. The expected rain is heavy enough to warrant a flash flood watch but not enough to make 2009 the wettest June-July on record! Unless three inches of rain falls, 2009 willl have to settle for second place behind 1975. Less than six inches of rain is needed by the end of August for Central Park to have its rainiest summer ever. Hip hip hooray!

      

It's such a pretty day today that it's a little hard to believe that yesterday was practically apocalyptic with the big afternoon-into-evening thunderstorms. Now the National Weather Service has confirmed that the funnel cloud seen in Wantage, NJ did touch the ground and is in fact a tornado. According to WCBS 2, there was a lot of havoc from the tornado, whose winds were up to 120 mph: "Officials say an EF2 tornado tore through the town of Wantage, ripping roofs of some houses, destroying barns, and causing extensive damage to roadways in its path... Two barns were ripped apart; their walls tossed around like pieces of paper. Then there was the silo that tumbled like it was a toy. The silo was made with about 40 tons of concrete and steel all meshed together."

   

Click on the images for more about this Week in Rock; this week features Dirty Projectors at the Williamsburg Waterfront, Andrew Bird at Green-Wood Cemetery, and Ted Leo at Pier 54.

Enjoy the sun today for tomorrow it will be gone. The high pressure system responsible for the recent streak of sunshine is moving offshore. We'll squeeze in one more pleasant day, look for a high around 80 this afternoon, before the clouds and rain return.

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.

The King of Pop is gone but the rainy weather is threatening to be here forever. What looked earlier in the week to be a change toward drier weather has completely collapsed. Memories of yesterday afternoon's few short hours of beautiful sunshine will have to pull us through the next few days.

Do you know what didn't happen between 2am Monday and early this morning? That's right, the city went 48 hours without rain! A high pressure system was able to hold the stubborn cut-off low from moving back into the area.

While the eyes of the world were on the riots in Iran over the weekend, another shocking miscarriage of justice almost went unnoticed closer to home in East Hampton—but thankfully a reporter for Plum TV was on hand to bravely document Saturday night's panic at the shitshow. In the middle of a rainstorm, a crowd waiting for their cars and others clamoring to get inside were huddled under the awning outside Georgica, a "hotspot" run by promoter Matt Levine, whom you may recall from his work at Lower East Side tool magnet The Eldridge.

As mentioned yesterday, Thursday's record-breaking rainfall for a single June day (2.3 inches) puts NYC within striking distance of breaking 2003's record June rainfall of 10.23 inches—and we've got almost two weeks to go. The NY Times created a graph of the wettest summers on record (but if you want to know the driest summer on record, you'll need our graph) and points out that if it stopped raining this month, June 2009 would still be the 7th wettest summer on record (and that doesn't even include today's rainfall!). Not to worry, more rain is on the way—we'll definitely hit at least 4th place!

Brooklyn Navy Yard's doomed Admiral's Row just suffered another devastating blow—but this time it was delivered by the hands of Mother Nature, not Mayor Bloomberg. Yesterday's rain storm helped in further destroying one of the former residences (known as Building C) along Flushing Avenue, which collapsed (at least partially) from water damage. Of course, the building would have been torn down at the hands of man anyway, to make way for the almighty supermarket. Curbed has some photos from the scene.