Seven minutes away from weather and traffic. Here he is, meteorologist bill evans with the exclusive accuweather forecast well, this is going to be the scene all day long. Its going to be windy, its going to be wet, were going to have wet streets, intersections will have low water, ponding and flooding for roadways later on today and starting out chilly. 37 and a chilly rain, 47 around east hampton, montauk. 31 down the jersey shore. 31 poughkeepsie and 38 bridgeport. Weve got a win thats out of the north and thats going to weve got a wind thats out atmosphere today. Tomorrow. Winds will be high. We still have this Winter Weather advisory. That will expire, dutchess, ulster, sullivan county, litchfield county, connecticut, thats because there was a overnight and ice. You see that to the north . We have the showers around today. Youll need your rain gear all day today. Showers this morning. Heavy toadstrangling rain later on today. Look at how that temperature well talk more about that.
She got the scare of her life, i can tell you that much. Check out the situation behind me here. Were on marden avenue in belmore where Nassau County police and pse g are hard at work. It took down a large tree. It landed right on top of a power line. But thats not all it landed on. The tree landed right on top of a car as well with a woman who was driving the car sitting inside the car. The next thing she sees, flashing lights from live wires at which point all she could do was pray. The wires just were crazy. A live wire again, like right in front of my windshield and if that would have blew, thats what im still trying to get over. Youre very lucky. I am. What do you say after Something Like this . How about lucky youre around mom. God was watching me today. There you go. Check this out too here in westbury, more downed power lines. Ridge drive, the wind took down those power lines, smoldering in the street which needed to be blocked off to traffic. Were live here in belmore where ps
Theres heavy rain just leaving pine plains in duchess county and parts of lichfield county, some heavy rain, and also heavy rain leaving the twin forks right now. These storms were screaming through the area at 50 Miles Per Hour. You can see a clearing line getting into western new jersey, and the skies are starting to look brighter over new york harbor. Were at 53 degrees right now. Future cast is showing the heavy rain leaving connecticut and long island over the next half hour. Still some light showers to deal with, and then the clearing is starting to comp come in. Come in. Wind gusts over 50 Miles Per Hour. Damaging wind gusts, even 60 Miles Per Hour gusts in the philly area. We have had storm reports. Thankfully the winds are coming down, but still gusting over 40 in parking lots of connecticut and long island. Trees down in the hudson valley, and in queens. In new windsor, that was in advance of the heavy line coming through this afternoon. What you need to know going forward, t
Wind gusts. More of that over the next several hours. Thats why theres a Coastal Flood Advisory for south county. Sussex county, with the southeast wind piling in here at high tide. Jersey. Through southern monmouth. Southern ocean county. Heavy rain here in new jersey here that would keep riding to the north. Future cast, temperatures are in the mid50s. Youll see by 4 00, a good portion of this rain is through the area so for the next three, four hours, the rain is going to come down hard. And the winds are going to gust very high over us as we go into the evening commute and into tonight. Expected rainfall somewhere around half inch, three quarters and an inch of rain. Create flooding. Wind speeds will be sustained here, 25 to 35 miles per hour. As i mentioned, with the gusts at 40. Into the next few hours. Theres 50 to maybe 60mileper hour wind gusts at the coast. Well talk about what will happen in the weekend. As this plows on through. Well talk more about this rain coming up, its
Look tonight at midnight, 11 00 to midnight, heavy downpours of rain, probably some rumbles of thunder, maybe some lightning with this front pushing through and wind gusts that could be at about 45 Miles Per Hour. Looking at an additional inch or maybe even two inches of rain out of this in some local spots, and were looking at some gusty winds here too. Were looking at winds stwix to 28 Miles Per Hour sustained with higher gusts. We will talk more about that and a big blast of cold air coming in too in your accuweather forecast in just a moment. Back to you, david, shirleen all right, bill, thanks. You can get the latest accuweather forecast and see live radar anytime with our accutrack alert app. Its free to download. Just search abc7ny in the google app or google play stores. Breaking news now, a series of manhole explosions in new jersey. Eyewitness News Reporter Michelle Charlesworth is at the scene in elizabeth. Michelle, what do we know so far . Reporter well, were on elizabeth