New York Weather: 41 Degrees and Clear on Marathon Morning, Near 59 Today and Dry for Election Day
The station's live feed has New York City at 41.3 degrees and clear in the marathon's first hours, feeling like 36.2 — a dry run to a high of 59.2 today, a milder Monday, and a dry, 65-degree Election Day before the week's first real rain chance Thursday.
It is a cold, clear start to the biggest running day of the year. The station's live feed put New York City at 41.3 degrees and clear before dawn on Sunday, feeling like 36.2 with the wind — glove weather at the Staten Island start village, and close to ideal once the running starts. The day's low, 38.3 degrees, belongs to the small hours behind us.
Race day itself stays dry from the first wheelchair start at 8 a.m. to the last finisher in Central Park: the feed holds the precipitation probability at zero under a high of 59.2 degrees. Spectators standing still on Fourth Avenue or First Avenue will feel every degree of the morning; runners will shed layers by Brooklyn. By the afternoon finish-line crowds, it is a mild late-autumn day.
The gentle stretch runs straight through the vote. Monday reaches 64.6 degrees with a low of 43.8 and only a 2 percent precipitation chance, and Election Day Tuesday is the warmest day of the three — a high of 65.7, a low of 53.7, and dry for the walk to the polls between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. Wednesday stays mild at 64.8 on the current feed.
The week's first real rain chance does not arrive until Thursday, when the feed puts the precipitation probability at 36 percent, rising to 52 percent on Friday with a high of 66.1. Until then, New York gets the November it would have ordered: cold at the start line, kind at the finish, and clear over the ballot box.
