Weather NYC Friday Afternoon: The Rain Is Here at 67 Degrees — the Weekend Turns Dry and Cold
The station feed now shows the rain falling — code 61 at 67.2 degrees with Friday's precipitation chance at 94 percent. Behind it comes the trade: Saturday and Sunday are dry and overcast, and the nights fall to 44.6 degrees.
The forecast rain is no longer a forecast. The station's live feed at midday Friday reads 67.2 degrees with rain falling (weather code 61), feeling like 71.1, with the day's precipitation probability at 94 percent and the day topping out at 69.1 before falling to a low of 60.8. The National Weather Service's morning matrix for Manhattan put Friday's 12-hour rain probability at 100 percent and the expected total at roughly eight-tenths to just under an inch — a soaking Friday afternoon and evening commute, not a washout.
The weekend is the other side of the front. Saturday reads overcast and dry on the station feed — high 60.8, low 44.6, precipitation chance down to 13 percent — and Sunday repeats it: high 59.2, low 44.6, chance 7 percent. The NWS matrix agrees on the shape while running a few degrees warmer on Saturday's high; on either read, the story is the same — the rain ends, the air changes, and the nights turn genuinely cold for the first time this stretch, in the mid-40s both weekend nights.
The week ahead extends the pattern. Monday is dry and overcast at 57.8, Tuesday is the week's warm, dry outlier at 63.5, Wednesday brings only a trace chance (code 51, 1 percent) at 56.9, and Thursday cools further to 49.9 with a low of 42.3. Nothing in the seven-day file suggests another rain day like Friday's.
For the weekend's plans — the tree arriving at Rockefeller Center, the BAM street party in Fort Greene, the last outdoor weekends of the fall — the read is forgiving: keep Friday evening indoors or under an umbrella, and dress for a different season from Saturday morning on. The warm rain was the week's last mild day.
