7:00 AM | **Powerful coastal storm forms on Wednesday**
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the New York City, NY metro region
Today
Mainly sunny, a bit cooler than yesterday, highs near 65 degrees
Tonight
Increasing clouds, cool, lows in the upper 40’s
Wednesday
Rain likely by early afternoon and becoming heavy at times, a thunderstorm possible late, cool, mid 60’s for afternoon highs
Wednesday Night
Periods of rain during the evening, heavy at times, remaining mainly cloudy after midnight, chilly, upper 40’s for late night lows
Thursday
Windy and cool with partly sunny skies, upper 50’s
Friday
Mainly sunny, still cool, near 60 degrees
Saturday
Mainly sunny, cool, low-to-mid 60’s
Sunday
Increasing clouds, cool, upper 60’s
Discussion
The weather will be nice for today's Yankees playoff game with Houston, but tomorrow night's game is in doubt as soaking rain is on the way. A vigorous upper-level low will drop southeastward across the Great Lakes on Wednesday and will help to set off the formation of a powerful coastal low along the east coast. This low will intensify on Wednesday and begin to impact the Mid-Atlantic region with significant rainfall – something that hasn’t been seen much in recent weeks. The storm will continue to intensify as it rides up along the Northeast US coastline late Wednesday into Wednesday night bringing with it heavy rainfall, strong winds and ultimately, even a change to snow in some of the higher elevations of New England. Following the storm, winds will be quite strong on Thursday in the Mid-Atlantic region and temperatures will struggle to escape the 50’s in many areas.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Perspecta, Inc.
perspectaweather.com