Head out there. Im ken rosato. Im Shirleen Allicot in for lori stokes. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and bill evans with the forecast. Showers and thunderstorms are coming in the area from the city eastward through rockland, Westchester County across brooklyn and queens. On the l. I. E. , 49495, oyster bay, smithtown. That will continue across the area. Here is another look from our accutrack radar. You can see the lightning strikes that are there. They decreased. They are across brooklyn and queens this morning heading eastward. We will have that a couple of hours. Then we look at a hot day today. The high will get to about 90 later on. Real feel 95. A spotty thunderstorm this afternoon. Heather is looking at the commute. Any flooded roadways . Nothing just yet. Take it easy if you are out driving around. Lets go to the maps. We will talk about a couple of incidents. Belt parkway, eastbound at irrelevant sten two lanes are cheesed. B. Q. E. Northb
Big wind gusts so far this morning. 50 Miles Per Hour in lading. 30 islip. Thunderstorm warning for the eastern end of long island, east hampton, montauk, riverhead eastward the thunderstorms are spreading. They are down around southold to plumb to Fishers Island out to new london. There is another band through right now. Northern jersey, rockland, westchester to philly, you need your rain gear the next half hour. Then a steam bath. Heather is looking at the commute. How is that going . Not well for long island commuters. We head to the commute, a tree fell, downed wires, this is near stony brook. Something to keep in mind if you use the Port Jefferson branch. New Jersey Transit on or close, Metro North Waterbury branch, work in bridgeport. B. Q. E. Subject to closure north at metropolitan avenue, overturned truck. Belt parkway east at knapp street an accident. 287 north in boonton a downed tree. B. Q. E. At this point northbound side still shut down. Southbound side only the right. A
Did it work . Likely not. Ben forget about answer your questions, transfer your messages, never have to listen to a voicemail again. One was the last time you left someone of voice mail. Juliet yesterday. Because they like to hear my voice. Ben they have to be at 5 00 in the morning. Juliet they dont want to. We dont blame them but it is 5 00, 5 01. Good morning. Rainy outside. Kind enough to lend me yours, reporting today. Mike has a surplus cash of umbrellas. Meteorologist i do sometimes. Why do you read me out. Juliet you would let me go out and ben mike would maintain his extra umbrella. Juliet you loathe the one recently and got yours back. Yearandahalf ago to get back in. Barricaded joy my second one. Under the box. Ben keeping track of two umbrellas. Meteorologist who is counting . Good morning. Lets have a look at what is happening, big storms through parts of the tristate and this guy has been warned in terms of Severe Weather in the area, Severe Thunderstorm Warning from here
61 down the jersey shore. 64 wrightstown. Sunshine, 84 by noontime. 87 this afternoon. A great day, especially for august. We should be in the midst of the dog days where its sticky, steamy and sultry. Its not. We will talk about the weekend next in your accuweather seven day forecast and it looks better than when we were talking about it this time yesterday, heather. That is a good thing. Lets go to the maps. Not a good thing is on the leigh. Looks like we still have an accident, l. I. E. Eastbound near exit 19. This accident blocks three lanes. Then as you head through brooklyn, dont forget about the sinkhole. Its 5th avenue at 64th street. Then we are looking at minor delays lincoln. Off the George Washington bridge on to 95 southbound local lanes near exit 71, we have an accident in the process of being cleared away. Mass transit is running on or close to schedule. Shirleen, ken, over to you. Okay, thank you. House sands of homes on long island are still without electricity this mo
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