NYC Forecast: Rain and thunderstorms headed our way

I mean, when is the rain going to come in here? So the rain is scheduled to come in right around lunchtime for us here, Dan. I'm trying to see if I can get right to a radar here. And show you what we've got going on today right here. Because the update from the FDNY is that all those who were missing have now been accounted for. So that sort of changes the focus of the investigation. But we know that they are still there. They are still using the excavator, in a sense, to clear out some debris. Maybe they're still looking for things along those lines. So still a dangerous operation for firefighters. And so what can they expect here in the next couple hours? So now it looks like, I mean, we had some showers early this morning, for us here in the city. But if we take the radar on, let's see, this would be on Links One, by the way. You can see we have a cloudy sky here right now. Rain has not really been a problem just yet. But that's what we see with the radar satellite. So we've been in the break. There have been a few showers over North Jersey, lower Hudson Valley. But see how they're starting to develop down near Wall, down to our southwest. It's not too far away. So in the next hour or two, we're going to see the showers start to make that comeback. And the problem is, not only are we going to see some light to moderate showers, There's potential for some big showers and big thunderstorms to come through here as we head toward late afternoon and into the evening. So right now, it's just kind of in the precursor. So luckily, we've had the break. I'm glad to hear the news that all the missing have been accounted for at this point in time because things will go downhill from this point forward. And it's going to be getting cooler. So we've got 60 degrees right now. Winds coming in from the east at around 5 to 10 miles per hour. Now with this storm, this coastal low or nor'easter, We do sometimes get coastal flooding issues. Looks like minor issues, maybe a half a foot of inundation coming through at times of high tide here this afternoon, tomorrow afternoon, along the central and south Jersey shore, as well as parts of Long Island and the Long Island Sound. But yes, the futurecast, this thing, as we roll into the afternoon, this is what kind of shows the intensity of that rain coming up in the afternoon into the evening, 2 o'clock. We could have thundershowers right on top of the five boroughs, especially northern New Jersey, but it does come through the city as well. We haven't had rain in a while. We haven't had rain for a little while. Exactly. It's been about a week since we had some substantial rain for us here. And, yeah, so that's going to be going on tonight into tomorrow. It looks like it backs off for a little bit tonight. But then on the backside of that low, we're going to have a little more energy coming through with more moisture. That leads to another round of perhaps heavier showers as we head into tomorrow morning. I don't think it's thundershowers, but it's that cold rain. And you see that snow up to the northwest. That's the stuff that could lead to some slick spots, places like up around Ulster County. You've got the winter weather advisory going into effect later on tonight through tomorrow afternoon because they could see some accumulating snow. It's minor, like 2 to 4 inches in the highest elevations, mainly for places that are at 1,500 feet or above. So not too many folks are going to be impacted by that, but you do want to be aware. The rain totals being put out, though, this is pretty significant. Now, this is just from now until Saturday morning. Most of this is falling through through today in the next 24 hours really about an inch to two inches of rain will be coming on by and and again the snow total is being put out by the models not so impressive it's more to the northwest it seems to be scaling it back even more so that's the good news if you don't want the snow. All right we'll get into all that can you stick around maybe around 10 40 we'll talk a little bit more about the weather in the weekend okay absolutely all right Mike thank you very much