Weather NYC: Clear and 48 Late Tonight — but Thursday and Friday's Rain Odds Have Climbed to 76% and 79%
Tonight is still the calm part of the week: clear, 48 and falling toward 47, feeling like 42. The change is behind it — the week's two rain days have firmed up, Thursday at a 76% chance and Friday at 79%, while Tuesday keeps its crown as the warmest, driest day at 62.
At the late read, New York sat at 48.3 degrees under a clear sky, feeling like 42.7 in the wind, headed for an overnight low near 47.7. It is the last fully quiet night on the board — no precipitation tonight, none of consequence Tuesday, and none at all on Wednesday — and the clarity that made Monday bright is holding through the small hours.
Tuesday remains the day to use, and it has improved slightly in the telling: the high is now 62.2, the warmest of the week, with the rain chance at 1% under overcast skies. Wednesday, the Veterans Day Parade's day, holds at 57.9 degrees with the rain chance at a flat 0% — the forecast the 12:30 p.m. Fifth Avenue step-off needed, unchanged across every read this newsroom has taken today.
What changed tonight is Thursday and Friday's conviction. Thursday's rain chance has climbed to 76% (drizzle, code 55, a mild high of 60.2 with a warm low of 52.3) and Friday's to 79% (code 51), with Friday's high falling to 52.3 — the week's turn is no longer a lean, it is a landing. Saturday then turns genuinely cold at 43.8 with the rain chance back down to 26%, and Sunday recovers partially to 47.2 and dry.
So the week's shape, late-night edition: a clear cold night, the best day of the week tomorrow, a dry parade Wednesday — and a two-day rain to close it that the board now believes in. Plan the dry half forward and the wet half indoors.
