JANUARY WARM SPELL REACHES HIGH TIDE THIS WEEKEND

Temps: Temps are at their peak Saturday-Sunday, with near 60 degrees possible in the urban hot-spots. Widespread 50s elsewhere during the day are likely; this is some 15-20 degrees higher than normal, mid-January levels. Some daily high temp records are in jeopardy for Saturday and Sunday.

 RECORD HIGHS FOR 1/12 AND 1/13

CENTRAL PARK

1/12: 64 (1890)

1/13: 68 (1932)

NEWARK

1/12: 61 (1975)
1/13: 70 (1932)

LA GUARDIA

1/12: 60 1975)
1/13: 62 (1995)

JFK

1/12: 60 (1975)
1/13: 57 (1995)

ISLIP

1/12: 58 (1995)
1/13: 60 (1995)

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Rain: Friday has some pesky light rain around in the afternoon, lasting on and off through the early morning hours of Saturday. Dry Saturday and much of Sunday with mostly cloudy skies; risk of a few showers Sunday night/Monday, with more organized rainfall Tuesday through Wednesday. Frontal boundary stalling close to the region means slow improvements through Wednesday.

 

The coming cold: Temps return to near normal January levels next Wednesday-Thursday and beyond. More typical mid-winter temps settle in, but core of the brutally cold weather will stay to our west through 1/20. Potential storm around 1/19 could mean frozen inland precip, but rain at the coast. More active wintry pattern should recommence through late month into February, as the overall pattern re-sets to the one which (eventually) settled in for late December. See previous post and embedded links on this.