What to Expect For Long Island Thursday Night Friday & the Christmas Weekend
The weather on Long Island for the next 2 days is rather simple and straight forward. We have a dry chilly air mass covering the Northeast today and Wednesday and that makes the outlook rather easy with sunshine for both Tuesday and Wednesday. Highs this afternoon will be around the 40 degree mark and the same holds for Wednesday. Tonight will be clear and cold with lows in the 20s. There is nothing much going on satellite or radar wise through Wednesday.
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Thursday begins the downhill slide as a major storm starts to develop in the Plains and then heads to the Great Lakes. This is setting us up for heavy rain, strong winds, coastal flooding possibilities along the south shore and the chance we could see a flash freeze Friday evening as cold air comes in with a rush. Temperatures Friday will be in the 50s into early afternoon but by evening we will be below freezing.
Winds will be strong from the south gusting to 50 mph or more Friday and then shift to the northwest at similar speeds Friday night so you can expect wind advisories to go up at the very least. Rainfall amouns could be 1.50 inches or more. Right now I will lean against any change to snow before it ends but even if it did, the most we would see is the ground being whitened. By Saturday morning temperatures will be in the teens to near 20. Saturday Christmas Eve dayside will be dry and very cold with sunshine and highs just in the low to mid 20s though it might be a little higher over the East End. Saturday night will be very cold into Sunday, Chirstmas morning with lows in the low to mid teens. Christmas Day will be sunny but cold with highs just in the 20s.
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