not starlings by Ralph Hockens on Flickr A high pressure system off the coast today would normally bode well for a sunny and seasonable Wednesday. The Weather Service is saying today's high will be a seasonable 46, but we think that is optimistic. There's a bit of vertical mixing going on, where cold air aloft gets churned up with warm air near the surface, that will likely put a damper on the day's heating.......

The city's Department of Homeless Services has recently begun enforcing a rule that is forcing 22 churches to stop serving as homeless shelters. The long-ignored rule states that religious-based shelters operate a minimum of five days a week. Many of these churches had long slipped under the radar and housed those in need three days a week. Arnold Cohen, president of the Partnership for the Homeless, who recently had to break the news to churches......

The pre-winter chill continues to deepen as Canada belches more Arctic air our way. The city won't reach 40 degrees for the third straight day today. That won't be be a big deal come January, but it is quite chilly for this time of year. Did you see the snowflakes yesterday morning? Admittedly there were only like three of them. There is another slight chance of flurries this afternoon. This first cold outbreak of the......

Coney Island by s_tansil on Flickr The National Weather Service would like you to know that the growing season is totally over. Yipee! No more frost or freeze warnings until next fall. The lack of any further warnings doesn't mean it won't freeze, it just means future freezes won't kill any plants as they're already dead. Cold air will continue to stream into the region for the next several days. Today through Sunday will......

There's plenty of cold air behind the front that passed through the city last night. For now the axis of cold has plunged southward rather than heading east. That misdirection will let the city squeeze in one more warmish day today. Expect a high near 60 with a slight chance of showers later this afternoon. The warmth will be gone tomorrow as a low pressure system traveling along the front will bring steady rain overnight......

After a couple of warmish days the city has quickly cooled off in the wake of last night's cold front passage. There's quite a pressure gradient associated with yesterday's storm. So, even though the low is now over the Canadian Maritimes, the city will still feel its windy ways today. Expect winds to rev up to 20 miles an hour, with gusts to 30 mph, throughout the day. A brief snow flurry or two is......

Through yesterday, this month was on pace to be the tenth warmest February recorded in Central Park. Cooler conditions today, and especially tomorrow, will put a kibosh on any top ten dreams the month may have had. This morning's brisk winds are in advance of an approaching Alberta Clipper that will pass through the area this evening. As the clipper gets closer skies will cloud up and there's an outside chance of a few flurries.......

This morning's water vapor satellite image, complete with dry tongue of air from Georgia to Maryland, from the National Weather Service You might think that today's forecast, warm with a chance of a thundershower, is a harbinger of spring. You would be wrong. Mother Nature lives up to her cruel mistress moniker by dangling spring in front of us while all the while holding another cold snap in a gloved hand behind her back.......

Yesterday's high of 40 and low of 28 was exactly average for Valentine's Day. Today, like all the children in Lake Wobegon, will be above average with a high temperature close to 50 degrees. The reverse will be true tomorrow. A cold front tonight will usher in a quick blast of cooler air. The high tomorrow will only be around freezing. Earlier in the week the front looked like a rainmaker, but we should......

Photograph of an East Village scaffolding collapse by Joel Horowitz Yesterday, strong winds and colder temperatures meant a freezing Sunday. The winds, up to 50MPH, knocked down scaffolding all over, as well as downed trees, causing power outages. In one instance, fallen scaffolding outside a new six-story building Brooklyn "crushed cars on both sides of the street." (a cop was also hit by flying corrugated metal). There was also snow, blowing sideways into the......

So far February has been off to a rousingly warm start. The average temperature has been 10.64 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, including a record-setting, nay record-blasting, high of 68 degrees on Wednesday. The recent warm stretch, today is the 13th straight warmer-than-normal day, will continue only through tomorrow. Today will be sort of cloudy, sort of sunny with a high around 45. We may see a litttle snow early tomorrow and a little rain later......

It's a hat hair day! An arctic air mass and a strong west wind has kept wind chills near zero since yesterday, pretty much requiring the wearing of a stylish wool hat and fleece scarf. Aside from the chill, today will be sunny with a high in the mid-20s. Maybe we'll skip the shackburger today. Tomorrow promises to be the warmest, and messiest, day of the week. The precipitation type will follow the temperature curve......

Less than 6 hours until kickoff at Lambeau Field and it's a balmy -6° in Green Bay. With winds at 15 miles per hour, Accuweather's real feel temperatures are -18°. While temperatures will increase by game time, it's still going to be ass-cold. The cold weather and the importance of the game makes it an event that could be one for the ages, something that seems to happen with frigid temperatures. Despite the cold weather,......

Believe it or not a trace of snow was measured in Central Park last night. The snow lasted only the briefest of moments as a warmer air mass soon arrived. That warm air mass didn't last too long either. The storm that brought us last night's precipitation has moved out to sea. As it moves it has been strengthening. The stronger storm won't bring us more rain but it is pulling more and more......

Ever notice that recipes for cooking a big hunk o' meat like a turkey or a roast will often say the meat's temperature will continue to rise after being taken out of the oven? Even though the heat has been shut off, it takes time for the poor beast to lose more heat than it has gained. A vegan-friendly example would be a recipe that says to plunge your green beans in ice water to......

Oh noes an outbreak of winter! First, there may be a snow shower or two this morning. Any chance of snow won't last long as the cloud cover should thin out as the day evolves. Next up: cold. Our high temperature of 37 for the day is but a distant memory as it was reached at midnight. We can expect the mercury to stay around 30 degrees for the remainder of the daylight hours before......

You'll have to excuse Gothamist if we seem a little disoriented this morning. No, we didn't mistake last night for New Year's Eve, it's just that the weather forecast has been changing back and forth so rapidly the past few days that we've gotten a little dizzy. The forecast have finally settled down and 2007's weather should end on an uneventful note. Clear skies for the rest of the day and a high in......

Last week Gothamist was in San Francisco for the third time this year. It was sunny and warm and we took an odd pleasure in watching the natives hustle about wearing wool hats and gloves. In our three trips to the west coast we managed to avoid the Valentine's Day snow storm, the April nor'easter and resultant flooding, and last week's snowy/icy/rainy pair of storms. We will leave it to our readers to decide......

December is off to a chilly start. Every day so far this month has been cooler than normal. Yesterday's 14 degrees below normal was the nadir of this current cold spell. Today will be slightly warmer and tomorrow will be slightly more warmer yet again. The minor warming may be accompanied by a bit of light rain as an upper level disturbance runs through the region this afternoon. As it cools tonight the rain may......

The snowfall season started off with 1.4 inches of flakes accumulating in Central Park yesterday. That doesn't sound like much but it puts us more than halfway to the December average of 2.6 inches. Unlike in icy New Jersey, rain and increasing overnight temperatures took quick care of what snow did fall across the city. There are a lot of rings around the Great Lakes low pressure system on this morning's surface weather map. The......

Weather and climate are different things. The former refers to day-to-day changes in the atmosphere, while the latter is a result of longer-term variations. The two can often be out-of-sync, which is why Gothamist gets violently agitated when people, on an unseasonably cold day, say "how can there be global warming, it's cold today," with the self-satisfied chuckle that goes with being a complete tool. Tomorrow, however, weather and climate will be walking hand-in-hand. Climatological......

Can you believe that it warmed up to 64 degrees yesterday? You may have missed it as the normal diurnal temperature pattern, you know, coldest in the morning, warmest in the afternoon was upset by a late-night cold front. The high happened at 1:52 a.m. and the low of 43 didn't occur until midnight. Cold air continues to pour into the region behind the front. While it will be a sunny day, this afternoon is......

Despite the fog, it looked this morning like today would be the warmest day of the month. Ha! The clear skies that were expected have given way to a layer of milky clouds. That will keep today's high to around what it is now -the mid-50s. Clouds will continue to thicken throughout the afternoon as a powerful cold front, that currently stretches from Hudson Bay to New Mexico, advances upon the region. A substantial amount......