new york city, it s going to take a little longer than that. sometime right around 3:00 or 4:00. and by 9:00 p.m. this evening, remember those macy s fireworks in the new york city area, it looks like you clear out just in time for a great show. by 4:00 a.m. even the boston area begins to clear out. so your fourth of july forecast, there s the rain socked in. d.c., you re the lucky one, same for you in baltimore. but southern portions of new england, we do clear it out for a great saturday, a great sunday but the problem will be occurring over the next 12 hours as literally there s a cold front slicing through and it s just sucking up the moisture from arthur and drenching us. we haven t really talked much about it as we ve gone throughout the day today but the rest of the country will enjoy a beautiful fourth of july. there s really not many problem spots. typical afternoon storms in the florida area, but otherwise it looks very, very nice. very nice fourth of july for a lot of diff
the sunshine along with just a nice breeze. now, there is still some problems to be had with this storm. we re focusing more now on the jersey shore, long island, connecticut, rhode island and also eastern massachusetts. we have a cold front that s stalled out to the north. that s that little rain band you see south of albany and north of new york city. we have a lot of heavy rain to the south that s being sucked to the north. it is going to be a soggy fourth of july in that region. let me take you through it a little bit. there s areas of long island, already some squally weather coming onshore in the southern portions of long island. the jersey shore south of long island, south of long branch, south of beechwood, we have some heavier rain. further to the south we re looking at heavy rains existing virginia beach. that s news for you. that could be the end of your rainy morning. maybe your fourth of july plans for the afternoon will be okay after all. ocean city, maryland, through the
kind of a different category. numerous areas had wind gusts that would do significant damage anywhere else in the country, but eastern north carolina, you are storm tested. you get storms like this often. the structures are built better. that s why we re not hearing reports of a lot of damage. look at our storm, it s almost now parallel to ocean city, maryland. it still has a well-defined eye with it. it s starting to weaken slightly but you can clearly tell we have a hurricane just off the virginia coast this morning. right now winds are at 100, pressure at 976. it s racing to the northeast at 21 miles per hour. it was due east of virginia beach about an hour ago. now it looks like it s probably a little bit north-northeast of that location. and so here it is on radar and satellite. the great news for the north carolina region that got hit hard last night, we re returning to your beautiful carolina blue skies. we have quick clearing of the clouds and rain, and even our reporters out t
all of a sudden you just see all that rain heading north. so eventually philadelphia, the new york city area, you ve had a pretty dry morning. that s going to change shortly, especially there in new york city. you re going to get drenched for a good portion of the middle of your fourth of july. hartford area, you re going to be next as that rain just surges northwards out ahead of arthur and out ahead of that cold front. the storm itself will stay off the coast and it will begin to weaken throughout the day today. again, maybe it will be a strong tropical storm, maybe it will be a low end hurricane, category 1, as it goes into nova scotia, but it doesn t make too much of a difference of the we re not expecting a lot of wind damage anyways. we re more concerned with what s going to happen with the rainfall and the waves at the beaches. here s the timing of it. here s where we re just about at now. there s the surge of rain heading north. by the time we get to noon, it should be fully en
many communities on this fourth of july holiday. forecasters are warning high surf and dangerous rip currents are a threat along many of the new york area coastal areas. nbc s ron allen in long beach, new york. he s been there all morning monitoring the situation. and i m told, ron, that you are with the long beach supervisor. of course their concern is that safety in the ocean right behind you. reporter: exactly. i m going to let one of the experts answer all your questions about this situation down here. it s john scuden, the boef supervis beach supervisor here. he s been here 40 years. you ve got surfers out there, is that safe? yeah, if you re experienced. when in doubt, don t go out. if it s too big for you, don t go out and wait for another day that s a little smaller. right now it s small, but it s going to fill in. reporter: we re getting some rain now for the first time. i don t know if it s