New York Weather Week Ahead: Dry and Mild Through Election Day, Then the Rain Arrives Late in the Week
The station's live feed opens the week at 40.3 degrees and clear, holds it dry through a 65-degree Election Day — and then turns, with rain chances near or above 50 percent from Thursday into the weekend.
New York starts its biggest week of the autumn the way it started marathon morning: cold, clear and dry. The station's live feed put the city at 40.3 degrees before dawn on Sunday, feeling like 35.3, on the way to a high of 59.6 with no precipitation expected at all. The low, 39.1, is the week's floor — from here, the nights get milder even as the days stay in the mid-60s.
Election week itself is the gentle part. Monday reaches 64.6 degrees with a low of 43.8 and a precipitation chance of just 3 percent. Election Day Tuesday is the pick of the week for the walk to the polls: a high of 65.7, a low of 53.7 and a dry sky from the 6 a.m. opening to the 9 p.m. close. Wednesday stays mild at 64.8, though the night's low, 56.1, tells the real story — the week's cold air is gone by then, replaced by the warmer, wetter pattern behind it.
The turn comes Thursday. The feed lifts the precipitation probability to 49 percent on Thursday, then 55 percent on Friday, when the code turns to drizzle with a high of 66.1 and a warm low of 60.2, and 47 percent on Saturday with showers and a high of 62. Anyone with outdoor plans has a clear instruction from the shape of this forecast: front-load the week. The dry days are Monday through Wednesday; the umbrellas come out after.
For today, none of that matters yet. Marathon runners get the dry, cold start the distance asks for, spectators get a bright midday near 60, and the city's last day of early voting runs under the same clear sky. The week ahead is two weeks in one — and the good half comes first.
