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Whoosh! That's the sound of today's weather. The skies may be gloomy this morning but, whoosh, a cold front will bring us abundant sunshine this afternoon. Along with clearing skies will be a much cooler air mass. Look at those crazy temperature drops across the Midwest yesterday. While our temperature drop won't be as extreme as in Chicago, we expect the proverbial mercury to drop into the mid-30s by the time we go home this evening. With that much change there's bound to be wind. The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory through five o'clock. Winds will pick up to between 20 and 30 miles and hour during the day. Gusts of 45-50 mph are not out of the question.

The snowfall season started off with 1.4 inches of flakes accumulating in Central Park yesterday. That doesn't sound like much but it puts us more than halfway to the December average of 2.6 inches. Unlike in icy New Jersey, rain and increasing overnight temperatures took quick care of what snow did fall across the city. There are a lot of rings around the Great Lakes low pressure system on this morning's surface weather map. The...

As expected, this morning people in the tri-state area waking up were greeted to a lovely looking blanketing of snow. But as pretty as it looks, it's being called a winter storm, since sleet and freezing rain are possible. The National Weather Service expect one to two inches of snow today, some areas could et up to four inches. What are you going to do today? See if the snow is good for snowballs?...

Mother Nature is all treats and no tricks this Halloween. With southerly flow around a high pressure system centered to the east today's high temperature should be nearly ten degrees warmer than normal. The day should be mostly sunny but there may be a few clouds and ghouls this evening.

The autumnal equinox is early Sunday morning, but the weather is not paying attention to the Earth's orbital position with respect to the Sun. Summer-like temperatures are here today, tomorrow, next week! Yes, the weekend weather is going to be as sweet as a sugarcube. The National Weather Service has the warmest forecast for the next few days so we'll go with them. Expect highs in the low-80s today, creeping up to the mid-80s tomorrow, before falling again to around 80 for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Weather.com and AccuWeather think it will be a couple degrees cooler than that each day.

The weather has gotten into the Labor Day spirit and decided not to work this week. Tomorrow will be a near-repeat of today. A weak cold front will cool us down slightly midweek. Highs on Wednesday and Thursday will be in the upper-70s. It should be warmer by the end of the week when the center of a high pressure system sits to our east. The National Weather Service says it will warm up to 90 on Friday and Saturday. Gothamist has no idea why they think it will get that warm. The Weather Channel's low-80s by Friday prediction seems more realistic to us. All in all an excellent week for the U.S. Open.

The National Weather Service has confirmed that an EF-2 tornado touched down in Bay Ridge this morning. That category of tornado has winds between 111 to 135 miles per hours, and roofs were blown off buildings and trees fell on top of cars and in the middle of roads. A resident told NY1, "I saw a mass of just leaves turning and it was just dark, like a dark mass. I was afraid and I saw the tree come down. I ran back inside and you could hear the wind. It sounded like a freight train coming through at full speed. It was like ‘whooooomp.’"

Ick. The National Weather Service has issued an Air Stagnation Advisory for the city and points northward. The advisory, which is in effect from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., is in response to high ozone levels. Ozone in the stratosphere is great for blocking skin-damaging ultraviolet radiation, but it can damage lungs and get into our bloodstream when close to the ground.

Snow came last night and it's pretty much gone. The National Weather Service no longer has winter storm warnings, as there's just a little more "sleet and rain mixed with snow" (as per WABC 7) expected today.

A huge winter storm, another in a series of late-winter Alberta Clippers, that's dumped more than a foot of heavy, wet snow on the Midwest is headed our way tonight. We won't get a foot of snow here, but it is likely we'll have a bad case of Valentine's Day storm deja vu.

It's about time. It took until mid-February but it finally looks like we are going to get a real winter storm. The forecast for tonight and tomorrow is positively nasty. Guess when Gothamist is flying out of town!

Forget about that lingering cough getting better today or tomorrow. The National Weather Service issued an air stagnation advisory today that will be in effect until Wednesday for the NYC, Rockland, Westchester, and Suffolk areas. Via AccuWeather:

THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION HAS ISSUED AN AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES.

Continue reading "Stagnant Air Advisory for NYC"

The rain is gone and the warmth is soon to follow. Last night's storm, which produced quite a bit of flooding upstate, was our last significant chance for precipitation for a while. Cooler air is arriving as our weather is being dominated by a large high pressure system. Tomorrow may squeeze in warmer than normal temperatures, for the twelfth consecutive day, but after that we're looking at high temperatures in the upper-40s to lower-50s for the next week.

That radar image is showing one bad-ass line of thunderstorms extending south from Rochester. The weather is heating up today, literally and figuratively. Central Park topped out at 69 degrees, while Teterboro reached 72. The 16 degrees above average is our most abnormally warm day since April 20th, when the high temperature was 21 degrees above normal.

This morning was not our favorite morning. Because of the extreme humidity Gothamist was a big ball of sweat before we had to climb the stairs in Morningside Park. With a dew point of 72 degrees and an air temperature of 82 there's not much cooling power to the air. AccuWeather's RealFeel temperature is up to 98 degrees, but Weather.com's Feels Like temperature is only 87. We noticed another measure of heat and humidity as we climbed the 116th Street stairs. The odors have inspired Gothamist to issue our first U.S.A., or Urine Stink Alert. Any way you look at it this weather is really gross.

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for eastern Hudson County in New Jersey and New York County aka Manhattan, in New York. A severe thunderstorm has been moving from around Jersey City and Bayonne northeastward toward Manhattan. There are reports of a funnel cloud. When funnel clouds reach the ground they are considered tornadoes. If a tornado is spotted seek shelter immediately, preferrably in an interior room or basement. Stay away from windows and flying debris. Nickel-sized hail is also possible. Gothamist can attest that nickel-sized hail is painful.

Lots for Gothamist to talk about today so let's start with the wind. It's windy, and will be getting windier as the day moves on. What's unusual about today is that the sources of the wind are far away. A high pressure system is building up in the Midwest. As that gains strength the pressure gradient between it and a stationary low pressure system over Nova Scotia increases. The steeper the pressure gradient the faster the wind as the atmosphere tries to level out the pressure differences. The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Advisory for the daylight hours. Winds will be blowing at a steady 20-30 miles an hour, with gusts up to 50 mph.

The National Weather Service is giving a shout out to northern Queens in their morning forecast, saying "Windy and mild with highs in the mid 60s...Except upper 60s in northern queens"

Have you done your panic buying yet? A major storm is looking more and more likely starting this evening. The National Weather Service has issued a Blizzard Warning, in effect from 7 this evening until tomorrow afternoon at 4. The snow will be heavy at times, especially late tonight, and is expected to total 8-12 inches by time the storm moves away. Accumulations of more than a foot are possible but not likely. This storm has the potential to be as big as last January's blizzard or even the 2003 President's Day storm. On the newly released Northease Snowfall Impact Scale, both of those storms were rated "Crippling" --the second-highest category.

Earlier in the week Gothamist was despairing that the weather had grown too boring. Not any more! The uncertain weekend forecast of light snow this weekend rapidly changed into a more certain forecast of a substantial snowstorm. The National Weather Service has issued a Blizzard Watch for tomorrow afternoon into Sunday morning. Conditions are set for a classic nor'easter to form off the coast during the day tomorrow. The counter-clockwise circulatioin of the storm will help pull Arctic air into the region. By doing so, the warm, moist air of the storm will ride up over the frigid air. If all goes well the city will see snow, snow, snow! Six to twelve inches are expected over the city and much of Long Island starting late Saturday afternoon. It will be windy as well. Expect lots of blowing and drifting snow.

The low temperature in Central Park this morning was 83 degrees. 83! That's higher than tomorrow's predicted maximum. The cold front that will usher in that relief currently cuts across upstate from Glens Falls to Elmira. It should be here early this evening. The insufferable heat and humidity will continue throughout the afternoon and the heat advisory remains in effect until 6 p.m. Because of the heat and humidity today has been delcared an Ozone Action Day.

Gothamist recalls a point last summer when we found it hard to talk about anything besides hurricanes in our ramblings due to the above normal amount of activity. The National Weather Service is indicating that this year will likely be no different calling for a 90% chance of an above normal to normal hurricane season.

The prediction is for snow to start tonight, with 5-7 inches to falling before it begins to turn to rain Presidents Day. So while things will clear up by the time we all head back to work, the remnants will surely be messy. (chuckle).

It seems that the worst that AccuWeather (channel 7) was preparing us for is turning out to be the most likely storm scenario. The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning effective from noon Saturday until noon Sunday. The NWS is now expecting between 12-15 inches of snow to fall over the city during that period. The snow will be accompanied by high winds with frequent gusts over 35 mph. Whiteout conditions, with zero visibility, are possible at times.

Gothamist has good news for seasonal allergy sufferers! After tying the record high temperature of 69 F at LaGuardia yesterday, allergy season is going to end tonight. It will end because our temperatures are going to fall below freezing. Brrrr. The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning for tonight and it's going to be even colder tomorrow night. This is your last chance to harvest any remaining tomatoes and be sure to bring any temperature sensitive houseplants indoors. This is not a drill! Them's snow flurries upstate on the radar image this morning.

The National Weather Service forecast uses the word drizzle five times to describe the weather between now and Thursday. AccuWeather expects less drizzle, only using it once, but does foresee rain and rain showers. The reason for our Seattle-like weather this week? For much of the next few days the wind will be blowing in from over the ocean.

Just a friendly reminder from Gothamist as we get ready to deal with (sigh) another swirly hurricane has-been. Now tropical depression Jeanne has already started to dump its load on us and will continue for most of the day before a cold front comes in from the west tonight and says "Get the hell outta here already!". The National Weather Service summed it pretty artistically.

Humid enough for you? We can't get enough of dewpoints in the mid- to upper-70s. After a miserably muggy weekend Gothamist has mold growing in… well just you never mind where we have mold growing! More mugginess is in store for today, but at least it will be slightly cooler than yesterday.

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.