Today's weather is a winner! Sunny and warm with a high in the mid-50s. Enjoy it if you can as tomorrow and Wednesday will feature varying degrees of wetness. The culprit is a nasty cold front that currently slices the country in two from Chicago to San Antonio. In classic springtime severe weather fashion, a low pressure system is spinning up over the front in Texas this morning. The low will surf along the front......

Our snowless, warm January is being followed by a very wet start to February. Expect rain and sleet throughout the day today. It's the dreaded wintry mix! We may even have a bit of thunder this afternoon. Actually, the weather freezing rain north of the city is making conditions dangerous from Connecticut through the lower Hudson Valley into northern New Jersey. Further upstate there's an ice storm warning in effect through 5 p.m. Within the......

Geez, the weather this winter has been uneventful. There's no letup of dull weather in sight, at least in New York. We took a gander at LAist this morning only to see that Los Angeles has more snow than Gotham City. The massive west coast storm has dropped up to eighteen inches of snow at higher elevations in Los Angeles County. Today is sunny, slightly cool and windy. Tomorrow: Clouds, slightly less cool and not......

Sometimes the forecast doesn't quite work out as expected. More accurately, sometimes the forecast sucks. Of the big three major forecast outfits, AccuWeather started the "big storm" drumbeat Friday night, the Weather Service joined in yesterday, while the Weather Channel, to its credit, never really got on the bandwagon. Gothamist had to laugh early this morning when an AccuWeather forecaster on 880 WCBS blamed the storm for "fizzling out" rather than accept responsiblity for a......

If you are as big a fan of reality shows as we are, Fox’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Sunday, 8:00 p.m., WNYW 5) is very welcome. Thanks to the WGA strike, there will be only eight episodes, but still this looks like an action packed romp based on the popular film series. Despite being based on the space time continuum bending robot filled movies, this has an all new cast with Lena Headley and......

On Wednesday, much to our regret, we cavalierly dismissed the Weather Channel's call for a chilly Friday. We much preferred the National Weather Service forecast at the time. Here's our dilemma: The Weather Channel forecast for Sunday is light rain. The Weather Service forecast, well, let's just say it goes on and on about heavy rain, a possible thunderstorm, minor flooding and heavy winds. Which is more realistic? Gothamist is sticking with the Weather Service,......

Last year at this time New York was starting its second week of an extraordinary early-winter warm spell. No such luck this year as December has so far been averaging about five degrees below normal. Today will be our first warmer than average day in a week and only the third such day this month. We can expect a high around 45 degrees. Both the Weather Service and the Weather Channel are predicting highs......

December is off to a chilly start. Every day so far this month has been cooler than normal. Yesterday's 14 degrees below normal was the nadir of this current cold spell. Today will be slightly warmer and tomorrow will be slightly more warmer yet again. The minor warming may be accompanied by a bit of light rain as an upper level disturbance runs through the region this afternoon. As it cools tonight the rain may......

Did you see the snow this morning? Light snow, drizzle and fog were in the mix at Central Park for several hours this morning. More intriguing, between nine and ten this morning the Weather Service reported "unknown precipitation" as falling on Belvedere Castle. Very mysterious! Not enough snow fell in the city to actually be measured but places to the north and west reported up to three inches of snowfall. Aside from the momentary snow......

The dominant weather maker today is a high pressure system that covers much of the eastern half of the country. The big air mass is cool and dry. A clue as to how cool can be found in the dew point temperature. As the center of the high has moved east our dew point, the temperature to which the air must cool for dew to form, has dropped to 25 degrees. Below freezing that's a......

Even though today is the coolest day in more than a week, it still is much warmer than an average late-October day. The Times had a story yesterday on our unusually warm October. A Penn State meteorologist said in the article that this might not be a record warm October for New York City but it would be close. Since we said something similar a week ago we thought we'd revisit the topic. Through......

Gosh, Gothamist goes out of town for a few days and we have actual weather. A couple of inches of rain and a big Canadian high pressure system put an end to a 22-day streak of above normal temperatures. Guess what? Now that we're back it is time to start a new warm spell! Friday and Saturday were slightly cooler than normal, but yesterday's average temperature was exactly average for October 14th. Looking ahead, the......

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......

If the Weather Service forecast is right, today will be the hottest day of the year. There's been three days, including yesterday, where the high has reached 92 degrees. The NWS is forecasting a high of 94 in the city today. The Weather Channel and AccuWeather don't see us getting that warm. Then again, AccuWeather said yesterday's high would be 85. The combination of heat and humidity are going to fall a bit short of......

The highest temperature ever recorded in Central Park happened 71 years ago today. On July 9th, 1936 the thermometer maxed out at 106 degrees. That record is safe but it will be plenty hot today and tomorrow. There's a bit of uncertainty to today's high temperature. AccuWeather is calling for a max of 92 degrees, while the Weather Service and Weather Channel both say it'll be around 96 or 97. Gothamist is leaning toward believing......

Switcharoo at CBS 2 This week, veteran anchors Jim Rosenfield and Dana Tyler, who were anchoring at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m., switched newscasts with Chris Wragge and Kristine Johnson, who were anchoring the noon and 5 p.m. We think that moving younger talent to the higher profile 11 p.m. newscast is probably an attempt to get some younger viewers. Channel 2 has been the least stable of the local newscasts over the past ten......

One of these days the closed low that's been sitting off the coast is going to go away. We thought it would have gone away yesterday, but that didn't pan out, so how about this late this afternoon or early this evening? That's when both the Weather Channel and AccuWeather show the wind shifting from the northeast to the east-southeast. Today's high temperatures, which are already higher than yesterday, will generally top out around 70......

It's a gunk alert day! Add warm air, high humidity, plenty of sun and not much wind and you get an air stagnation advisory. The advisory is in effect from ten this morning to eleven tonight as we'll be dealing with elevated ozone amounts in the city and surrounding counties. To reduce adverse health effects the state Department of Environmental Conservation recommends avoiding strenuous activity while outdoors. The good news is it won't be as......

A cold front is pressing down upon us from the north. The line of rain accompanying the front stretches from Albany to Scranton and should hit the city by mid-afternoon. Beware! Showers and perhaps a thunderstorm will produce locally heavy rains and gusty winds. We may even see a bit of hail. Most of the rain will be out of here by seven or eight this evening, but the chance of showers will linger until......

This week's weather looks to be a speeded-up version of last week's weather. The high pressure system that has dominated the weather yesterday and today isn't nearly as big as last week's system so we're in for a much quicker cycling of weather conditions. A cool and dry day today will be replaced by a warmer tomorrow. The humidity increase on Wednesday may result in a shower or two that afternoon. After a Wednesday......

April showers lasted one day into May with an entertaining thunder and lightning display last night. A big high pressure system over northern Ontario is slowly making its influence felt over New York. A bit of moisture and clouds are still with us, so far keeping the afternoon cooler than expected. Once that moisture is pushed away temperatures are expected to jump to around 70. The high pressure system is big. It pretty much......

A look at some noteworthy television this week: Drive (Sunday and Monday, 8:00 p.m., WNYW 5) Sunday has the two hour debut of Drive crossing the starting line. The show is a drama that follows the participants of an illegal cross country road race who aren't like those you would find in The Cannonball Run. One of the forces behind the show is Tim Minear who has worked on shows like Firefly and Wonderfalls, which......

Although the cool weather has ameliorated this week, temperatures are still running below normal. Tomorrow will see a bit of a setback in the warming department as a springtime nor'easter blows our way. Clouds, rain, and most importantly easterly winds will bring a chill to the day. Showers may begin by late this evening, but the steady rain isn't expected to be here until the early morning hours. Tomorrow morning's commute may be on the......

As noted elsewhere, yesterday was the coldest Easter Sunday in 67 years. This past Christmas and New Year's were warmer, as was Martin Luther King's Birthday. Yesterday's temperatures were more appropriate for mid-February than early April and more snow fell during a Yankees game yesterday. We should rebound a little today, but don't expect to see normal temperatures –highs should be in the upper-50s this time of year– until Friday at the earliest. Interestingly, perhaps......

The last two weeks have mostly been warmer than normal. That trend reverses itself today. We hope you haven't put your mittens and mukluks into storage as it is going to feel more like late-February than early spring. The culprit is the jet stream, which will be dipping south of us at least through next Monday. The map above is for Saturday, which will probably be the coldest day of the week for most of......

Today may be the last cold day of winter. Spring begins in twelve days and the only spot of cool air between now and then is likely to be next Saturday. This morning's low dipped down to nearly 262 Kelvin (Gothamist is in an SI units mood today) in Central Park. Bridgeport and Islip both set records lows this morning. We'll go out on a limb and say that, unless we get a late-season snowfall,......

It is often said that baseball is a game of inches. There are many times during a game when an inch or two difference in the location of the ball would change a strike to a ball, a swing and a miss to a hit, a double to a home run, a catch from a error. On a much larger scale we can think of meteorology as a game of miles. The last two snow......

Did you catch yesterday's Extra, Extra mention of the ice bridge that existed between Brooklyn and Manhattan 140 years ago? We were quite taken by the story —Henry Ward Beecher and his wife were a couple of the intrepid ice crossers— that we looked up the Times version of the story. There's a great story from one of the crossers which we've excerpted here. Of the ice breakup the gentleman said "… an immense opening......

Tomorrow is going to be cold cold cold. Wednesday will be colder colder colder. Don't say that Gothamist didn't warn you! Winter, in the form of a nasty arctic front, is finally arriving. We won't get the ice storm that's been blamed for at least 21 deaths, and is currently lashing upstate, but the weather will turn sharply colder tomorrow. Today should be mild as the wind shifts to come from the south. The Weather......

Don't be alarmed/hopeful about that snow falling on upstate New York and northeastern Pennsylvania on the map above. It's just a bit of lake effect flurries that won't reach the city. For us, it's the same old story. Although today is cooler than yesterday, it will still be warmer than normal. Gothamist is beginning to run out of superlatives to describe our current streak of warm weather. Today marks the eighteenth straight day of......