7:00 AM | *Back door cold front brings in a dramatic change for Sunday...heavy rain event late Sunday night into Monday with strong thunderstorms as well*
Paul Dorian
6-Day NYC Forecast
Today
Partly-to-mostly sunny, breezy, warmer, cannot rule out an early sprinkle, highs near 80 degrees
Tonight
Mainly clear, mild, lows near 60 degrees
Saturday
Increasing clouds, breezy, warm, low-to-mid 70’s for early afternoon highs
Saturday Night
Cloudy, breezy, turning much colder, light rain or drizzle at times, low-to-mid 40’s for late night lows
Sunday
Mainly cloudy, breezy and much colder with the chance of afternoon showers, highs confined to the 40’s following the passage of a back door cold front; heavy rain and possible strong thunderstorms late at night
Monday
Heavy rain still likely in the morning and possible thunderstorms; otherwise, mainly cloudy skies, breezy and milder with chance of afternoon showers, upper 50’s for highs
Tuesday
Mainly cloudy, breezy and cold for mid-April, near 50 degrees for highs
Wednesday
Partly sunny, cool, mid-to-upper 50’s
Discussion
Temperatures will climb into the 70's for highs today and on Saturday, but it’ll turn a lot colder on Sunday thanks to a strong back door cold front that will be dropping down the Northeast US coastline from northeast-to-southwest. A heavy rain event is likely here from late Sunday night into Monday as a west-to-east moving strong cold front pushes in from the Midwest. There can be strong thunderstorms mixed into the picture as well during this heavy rain event and some locations in the I-95 corridor could end up with more than two inches by later Monday morning. This same cold front will likely result in a widespread severe weather outbreak today across the southern Plains and on Saturday in the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys. The next month or so could very well be quite active in those same areas with the possibility of numerous severe weather events.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Vencore, Inc.
vencoreweather.com