Blast of cold brings a chilly weekend to Long Island

If you are just joining us tonight, I just want to let you know the earlier severe thunderstorm watch for Nassau County has been canceled, and we don't expect severe thunderstorms from this point forward, but we're in and out of rain showers. Really, the heaviest rain really just grazed the North Shore and had some brief gusty wind. That's now over the Long Island Sound. And so pretty much from this point forward, you notice the wind first, but you can run into some scattered showers, even a brief downpour as we go throughout the rest of tonight. But we're starting to notice some of those gusts in the 30 mile per hour range, and we'll generally have 20 to 30 35 mile per hour wind gusts as we go throughout the overnight. Can't even rule one out around 40 miles per hour. So with the showers, with the gusty conditions, there could be an isolated power outage overnight. Not a whole lot of rain right now that is steady, just on the off and on light to moderate rain shower chances we go throughout from right now and say around midnight or so. After midnight, I do think we get a round of some steadier rain that is light to moderate most of the overnight, but it's a steady rain paired with wind around 15 to 35 miles per hour. And so it's just kind of a really nasty overnight to be traveling. So just slow down a little bit if you are out and about. I do expect the rain to still end between six and eight in the morning. Then it's cloudy and breezy and certainly chilly for a while. And as we get into the afternoon on Saturday, gradually we'll start to see some breaks of sun, but it will take a while. Some of the latest trends actually have the clouds hanging on a little bit longer. I do think we'll brighten up that sky in the afternoon on Saturday, but it will just take a little while for us to get there and see more of that sunshine. Feels like temperatures going from the 60s tonight down into the 50s after around two o'clock Saturday morning. By the time you're out and about, you're going to need the winter jacket on Saturday. It'll feel like around 40 degrees first thing in the morning. Mid 40s at best in the afternoon. Coldest part of the weekend is going to be Saturday night into Sunday morning. It'll feel like the low 40s by around early Saturday evening. Then it will feel like the 30s the rest of Saturday night and into Sunday morning. So we do have colder weather on the way into the weekend. So periods of rain overnight, windy becoming chilly. Some of those gusts around 30 to 40 miles per hour into early in the morning and it's still breezy on Saturday. We're drying out though. It's just going to be a much chillier feel even through Sunday, but next week feeling better with mostly dry weather.