Weather Stories

Rain is headed our way on Thanksgiving. While it is sorely needed, the timing is less than ideal.

Two more rounds of rain in the forecast for this week will likely lead to a soggy Thanksgiving. It’s great for addressing the region’s dramatic precipitation shortages that led to water restrictions and drained reservoirs, but it also may literally and figuratively rain on your parade.

New Yorkers heading to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday will unfortunately need to bring rain gear with them, according to the latest Storm Team 4 forecast. Rain is expected during the parade, but the good news is winds are expected to be less than 10 miles an hour, which would mean the balloons could fly. The Thanksgiving Day&#...

Some tri-state residents woke up to a couple of inches or more of snow on Friday. While most of the immediate New York City area, some towns north and west of the city, especially at higher elevations, saw the first accumulating snow of the season. There were some school closings and delays from the snowy conditions, with an NBC New…

While much of the tri-state received rain overnight, some residents in New York and New Jersey are waking up to the first accumulating snow of the season. The most significant snowfall was expected in higher elevations north and west of the New York City area. So far, the snow accumulation has been very “elevation dependent,” according ...

By most measures, Thursday looks to be a miserable day – cold, rainy and breezy. The precipitation is just what the tri-state has needed for weeks.

By most measures, Thursday looks to be a miserable day – cold, rainy and breezy. The precipitation is just what the tri-state has needed for weeks.

Rain (at long last!) arrives overnight tonight and could bring a quick inch or two to much of the tri-state by sunrise Thursday. Light showers will linger through the rest of the week, but the big news will be the heavy rain Thursday morning. Most of the area will see 1-3″, but some areas at higher elevations north and west…

Ahead of a big travel weekend, some parts of the tri-state are going to see their first snowflakes of the season later this week. If you live north and west of New York City, accumulating snow is possible Thursday into Friday. A winter weather advisory has been issued for Sullivan and western Ulster counties in New York and Pike County…...

After weeks of missed rain chances, extreme fire danger, and an exploding drought, desperately-needed rain is on the way. And this time it’s more than just a trace. While most of the tri-state, including the immediate New York City metro area, will see rain, at higher elevations north and west of the city, residents will see their first snowfall......

After weeks of missed rain chances, extreme fire danger, and an exploding drought, desperately needed rain is on the way. And this time, we expect more than just a trace in the tri-state area. It has been an exceptionally dry fall. Season-to-date, Central Park is running nearly 9 inches below normal. And this is a trend seen across the region;&#823...

New York City and 10 other New York counties are now under a drought warning a dry conditions continue, the state and city announced Monday. A drought warning is the second of three levels to deal with the dry conditions. The third and most severe level would be a drought emergency. The counties under the drought warning include: Bronx, Delaware,&#...

The tri-state area, along with most of the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions, continues to choke under prolonged exposure to the dense smoke filtering in from Quebec, Canada this week.  It is the result of a “perfect storm” of phenomena coming together in the wrong place and at the wrong time. First, there are the fires themselves. They are produc...