Weather NYC Friday Evening: Drizzle at 65 Degrees as the Rain Winds Down — a Dry, Cold Weekend at 59 Is Next
Friday's rain is spending its last energy over New York City: the station's live feed reads 64.6 degrees with drizzle at a 97 percent precipitation probability for the day — and behind it, a dry weekend at 59 degrees with nights down to 44.6.
The evening numbers show a system on its way out. The station's weather feed, read this cycle, puts the city at 64.6 degrees — feeling like 67 — under condition code 51, drizzle, down in both temperature and intensity from the afternoon's rain read of 67.2 degrees. Friday's full-day figures close at a high of 69.1 and a low of 58.3, with the day's precipitation probability at 97 percent: it rained, as forecast, on essentially the whole city.
The turn comes overnight and it is a cold one. Saturday reads overcast at a high of 59.1 and a low of 44.6, with the precipitation probability down to 13 percent; Sunday repeats the shape almost exactly — 59.2 and 44.6, precipitation 7 percent. Monday stays dry and cooler still at 57.8, and Tuesday recovers to 63.5 with no precipitation in the feed. The weekend is dry from end to end on the current numbers; what it is not is warm.
The practical translation for the city's weekend is a layer, not an umbrella. Saturday's events — the Rockefeller tree's arrival in the morning, the Islanders and Devils at UBS Arena in the evening, the hikes on the Parks calendar — all run under a dry, grey, sub-60 sky, and anyone out after dark meets the coldest nights of the stretch so far at 44.6 degrees. The rain gear that Friday required can stay home; the coat cannot.
This desk's next weather file reads the Saturday-morning feed. If the weekend numbers move, they will move there first — on this read, the story of the weekend is settled: the rain ends tonight, and the cold walks in behind it.
