Boy scout leader inside a cave in new jersey. Winter officially arrives tonight. But get ready for a big warm up this week, all leading up to record breaking temperatures on Christmas Eve. Oh my kind of went sneer thank you for being with us, im Michelle Charles in for lori stokes. Nice to have you along. Bill evans with the accu weather forecast. Reporter here we go. Starting out with cloudy skies, quite mild, 43 degrees and it only is going to get warmer. Normal overnight low is 30. But it is 27 around kingston where it should be 20 and maybe even in the upper teens around monticello. Today we are looking at sunshine and clouds all day long, it is going to get milder. Mild and ends mild. The normal high is 41 and we are looking at 55 this afternoon. Record temperatures, 70 on Christmas Eve. Yeah that is crazy. Heather orourke. A Christmas Eve barbecue. Lets go to our mass transit. Running close to schedule no major problems to report. And the George Washington bridge is a minor delay
Im rob powers filling in today for ken rosato. Thanks for being with us. Youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans. Good morning, gang, were going to have ourself a nice start to the day. Temperatures are going to be cool. It only gets colder from this point on. We take a look at temperatures this morning. Were starting out in the 50s. 56 degrees. Look at these temperatures, really mild, 53 in north port. 52 at hauppauge and 54 at montauk, it should be 33 in the park to 23 up toward poughkeepsie, but today were looking at a much different situation. We are going to be looking at colder air that starts to pour in during the day today. Youll see the temperatures today really start to fall off as we go into the afternoon. The temperatures drop on down into the 40s. Look at that, as we get down to the low 40s by 4 00, but the wind out there is going to make it feel like 30s. Tomorrow is the coldest day of well talk about that next. Shes back
Were going to be at 53, maybe even 55 west of the city this afternoon. It only gets warmer heather. A record high by sunday. Well talk about that soon. Awesome. Hows it going out there . Not doing too badly. I can tell you all about mass transit and new Jersey Transit Long Island Railroad, metro north doing okay. Subway Services Also running on or close to schedule. 1st avenue you still have this closure. 59th street up to 65th street all because of the falling brick incident from monday. So you know what im about to say. You can expect delays to and from the ed koch 59th street bridge as a result. Now were also looking at a problem here as you travel through North Brunswick, 27 both ways between finnegans lane and henderson. You have 31 in Washington Township southbound, Jackson Valley road to washington avenue an accident. All lanes are closed down as you go through that spot. Minor delays George Washington bridge, lincoln and the holland tunnels. We have alternate side of the lori o
Minutes away from weather and traffic. You can call it december 4th if you want to, weather wise its not going to feel like it. We have some very mild weather, a nice start to your weekend. 44 degrees right now. We should be in the mid30s, upper 30s around the five boroughs to the 20s north and west. 37 monticello, 35 armond, 36 norwalk. These numbers are mild. Were off to a very night start to the weekend. Well have sunshine, 50 to 52 degrees later on this afternoon. Going to be great. Going to get warmer. Were going to be in the mid 50s by sunday. That has had Heather Orourke dancing around the maple all morning long. I put a new ribbon on the maple. I dont know if you noticed. Lets go over to our mass transit chart. Everything is doing fine if you want to use new Jersey Transit, long island railroad. We do have construction George Washington bridge, lincoln and and thats the George Washington bridge. The upper level has two lanes closed in both directions. Not causing major problems
Well get rid of that to a milder feel by noon. Forecasting a high today of 54. Thats just the beginning of a very mild week. Lauren scala back on the traffic this morning. Good morning. Not a bad morning for the commute. We have a closure in the toms river area. Route 9 still shut down in both directions by clayton avenue. Theres some cleanup because of an accident with a downed pole. Much better news at the George Washington bridge. Things are free and clear there. No road work getting in your way. And well have more weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. All right, lauren. Thank you. 5 01 right now. Now to that bear attack in new jersey. A boy scout leader is in the hospital but lucky to be fflive. Its all thanks to three young members of his troupe. Today in new yorks jen maxfield is at the morris Town Medical Center where that scout leader is being treated. Reporter good morning. Thats right. He is being treated here for injuries, for scratches and bite marks to his leg and head.