It is monday september 21st, youre never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Meteorologist bill evans with the accuweather forecast. We start out with some clouds this morning, some cooler weather. Last couple of days of summer, and its going to feel very falllike. 61 degrees here at 4 30. Were looking at 50 around middletown, 61 newburgh. Temperatures all over the place depending on whether its clear. 52 in putnam county, 47 kingston and poughkeepsie. Were looking at 57 around norwalk. Its a little on the cool side. 61 around belmar and towards montauk 61 degrees. Wind out of the northeast. Its kind of ironic heather we close out today and tomorrow, but fall on wednesdays going to feel like summer. Thats good news. Well talk about our subway status. This was going on all weekend long continuing until 5 a. M. , 1 trains, no trains, 242nd street to south ferries. There is local service. Long island railroad, metro north, new Jersey Transit doing fine. Throgs neck bridge h
Now with exclusive accuweather forecast diswhrvment well, first things first. We have one storm that affects us today and then we have joaquin for sunday into monday, so lets get started with whats happening this morning. Its windy, its cloudy, its chilly, so you need the gear to keep you warm. You need the wind breaker, you need the sweater. Its 57 degrees. Were going to be 20, 25 degrees cooler today and its windy. So were looking at 57 murray hill, riverdale 54, whitestone 56. Up to the north 48 monticello. So cooler, albeit, lets just call it colder air has poured in here from the north. You see the camera bouncing around here. Hour wind. Well be around 64. Its going to feel much cooler today. Rain comes in later today and tonight, then its windy, rainy tomorrow and then weve got some nasty weather for saturday and sunday, and thats not even from joaquin. So were going to be talking about a lot of coastal flooding as well as inland flooding in the coming days, lasting into next wee
The bad news is going on right now. We have a lot of rain and a lot of wind and the possibility of coastal flooding. 51 kingston, 54 around norwalk, 55 around the jersey shore. Look at the wind gusts at 22 miles an hour around laguardia and over towards newark. A tough wind, its rainy and raw. Theres a coastal flood watch for the rest of the area, and thats through saturday as weve got a tough northeast wind coming in today from this really its a noreaster working its way over us. See the rain down the atlantic coast. Were going to be looking at that rain coming up through the day today. Joaquin a category 4 storm. It will begin to eject out today as a category 4 storm. Today you need your rain gear, the warm raincoat, the boots, the umbrella, everything. It will feel like 40s. Heathers got the day off. Shes hiding under her bed. Can you believe that. Debbie duhaime is in the Traffic Center. Well go to the maps and show you whats happening on 287 southbound at 440 and edison. A truck i
To the north around 39 around monticello. Grab a jacket or a sweater. Well be at 60 by noontime, 65 this afternoon. Debbie duhaime is up in the Traffic Center in for heather this morning. Youve got troubles out there this morning, got a car fire going on. A car fire on route 1. If youre heading to route 1 northbound, watch for that car fire, at least one lane blocked. An issue as well with the lirr. Over on the lirr, Port Jefferson branch, watch for delays due to a broken rail in cold spring harbor. Well keep an eye on that for you. Metro north and new Jersey Transit on time. Metro north on the new haven line opposite side boarding west haven strafford and milford stations as well because of track work. L. I. E. Westbound at woodhaven boulevard. Its an accident being cleared. Lets go over to our webcam. Heres a look at 18 northbound, moving slowly up toward route 1. Route 1 northbound, its a car fire. Alternate side suspended. Back to you. Ken, lori. S its 6 01 in brooklyn, woman still
Today a lot of sunshine, 60 by 7 00, 70 by noontime. 74 this afternoon, a perfect day. Weve got some cooler weather tomorrow and still sunny. Rain by friday. Well talk about that next in your accuweather sevenday forecast. Debbie duhaime is up in the Traffic Center looking at the ride, the roads, the rails and all that for you this morning. Hows it going out there. A lot of action. Were going to start with john del giorno. Hes high above the problem. What are you checking out for us . Good morning, debbie. We are just rolling in on this problem, and weve got a lot of traffic on the inbound gowanus expressway coming off the verrazano bridge. What weve got is late running emergency construction. Thats what theyre calling this is emergency construction inbound on the gowanus just off the verrazano as you get into brooklyn. The big deal here is that right now the hov lane is completely shut down. Thats the lane at the far left there, that would normally be open at this time of the morning.