The autumnal equinox happened around 5:51 yesterday morning. There were equal parts day and night everywhere on earth. Were the buildings not in the way, you could have witnessed yesterday's sunrise and sunset both occurring down the middle of Stuyvesant Street, the only street in Manhattan where that phenomenon can happen on the same day. Although today is the first full day of fall, continued summer warmth will be the norm for the next few days. They would be excellent days to go fall leaf peeping if there were colorful leaves at which to peep. more ›

We were tempted this morning to throw up a pretty sky photo from the Gothamist Contribute pool and not write anything because there's not much weather to discuss. The week is starting out cool but will get warmer. By Thursday we should be seeing maximum temperatures in the upper-70s to around 80 degrees as the high pressure system that will dominate the weather this week moves further eastward. Skies are expected to stay mostly clear through the weekend and probably well into next week. more ›

One reason for the unpredictability of a hurricane is that the storm gets big enough to perturb its surrounding environment. When that happens you get a contest of equals in the atmosphere, the tropical system can start to deform the atmospheric around it, and the outcome is uncertain. That didn't happen with relatively weak Tropical Depression Gabrielle. She briefly intensified to tropical storm status, but weakening after touching the Carolina coast she never had the oomph to compete with the rest of the atmosphere. Now she is being squeezed out to sea by a high pressure system over the mid-Atlantic and a weak cold front along the east coast. At best the beaches will sea a bit of rough surf and riptides. more ›

Another sunny and mild day is on tap for today. The wind has shifted to come out of the southwest ahead of an approaching cold front. The wind shift means we'll see slightly warmer, with a high close to 90, slightly more humid air today. The front is weak and there's not much moisture associated with it so we should stay dry until tomorrow. more ›

So, last week's weather featured intense rain that shut down the subway system, a tornado skipping through Staten Island and Brooklyn, an unbearably steamy afternoon, and a couple days of near-record low temperatures. This week's weather should feature, uh… uh… well, not much of anything other than warm, sunny days. more ›

It should be breezy today and tomorrow. While Gothamist thinks breezy is a fun word to say aloud, its use indicates that not much is happening weatherwise. We may see some clouds from Tropical Storm Nicole as it moves northward toward Nova Scotia, and later in the week we may get some rain as what remains of Tropical Depression Matthew, which dumped craploads of rain on Louisiana, gets caught up in a trough of low pressure as the trough moves through our area on Thursday. more ›

The airlines are being friendly with Hurricane Ivan rescheduling...but what about The Tropical Depression Formerly Known as Ivan? more ›