Marathon Morning Weather in New York City: 45 Degrees and Clear Overnight, 38 at the Low and Near 60 by Afternoon
New York City is at 45.1 degrees and clear late Saturday night, feeling like 39.4 - on its way to a Sunday low of 38.5 for the marathon start, then overcast skies and a high of 59.5 for the finish-line hours.
The cold the forecast promised is here. The station's weather feed put New York City at 45.1 degrees and clear (code 0) late Saturday night, feeling like 39.4, with a precipitation probability of just 1 - the end of a dry Halloween that stayed clear through the Village Halloween Parade and kept cooling after it.
Sunday's low on the feed is 38.5 degrees, under overcast skies (code 3) with a high of 59.5 and the same minimal precipitation probability. That is the spread marathon runners will dress across: a winter-feeling wait in the start villages on Staten Island before the morning starts, and a near-60 afternoon for the last finishers in Central Park. Spectators standing still on Fifth Avenue will feel the morning more than the runners do.
The pattern eases right after race day. Monday recovers to a high of 64.5 with a low of 44, and Tuesday - Election Day - reaches 65 degrees with a low of 53.7 and no precipitation in the feed's numbers, a mild, dry walk to the polls.
Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, so the cold night is also the long night: clocks fall back an hour in the middle of it, and the 38-degree low arrives an hour later than the clock on the wall would have said on Saturday.
