first we get a check on the accuweather forecast from meteorologist lee goldberg. good morning lee. >> speak for yourself. i have a nice clientele after all these years. merry christmas everyone. great to be in for bill this morning. it's one to remember, our temperatures have been through the roof. if you weren't with us last night, check this out, christmas eve was only 3 degrees cooler than july 4th. pretty unbelievable, and now as of 12:31 this morning, the warmest christmas on record at 66 degrees. pretty amazing. last year was pretty mild too, 66 and a little bit of rain. the george washington bridge, 61 degrees right now at 7:18 in the morning on christmas. chill in the northwest suburbs, sussex 44, 61 in the park. visibilities vary greatly. it's partly cloudy north and west and then dense fog at the coast. there's a fog advisory for long island until 6 in the morning, until 10 in the morning for much of new jersey. look at the thunderstorms we escaped going to the south and east overnight. here's your planner, clouds, some fog this morning, more breaks nort

lee goldberg is tracking the foreign object outside the studio. >> we have been looking at it all day long. sounds like the umbrella is optional. we have light drizzle right now. the george washington bridge, a little steadier in fort lee at this time. we have occasional rain and drizzle as we go through the evening hours. we are at 48 degrees. a little on the raw side. northeasterly wind feels chilly at 10 miles per hour. rainfall a quarter inch or less so far. no ponding on area roadways. look at toms river. nearly .9. they will push an inch or more steady rain over eastern long island and connecticut. a little last burst over parts of bergen and that's why the camera looked worse than what we are experiencing on the west side. there it is a gap during the evening commute before the batch over the virginia's gets here at 3:00, 4:00 in the morning. off and on rain and drizzle. if you head out, you need the raincoat. shouldn't be heavy. early commuters a period of heavy very rain. that is the idea through the morning hours, north and west. the evening commute looks worse than today. a

meteorologist lee goldberg it is tracking it all. >> on the first full night of winter, dress spring. 20 degrees above average. pretty shot of midtown. you can see the low cloudiness. it hasn't lowered to the point where visibilities are way that will happen tonight into tomorrow morning. we are in the low 60s. cloudy skies. westerly wind about 6 miles per hour. mild across the area. last year on this date we were 20 colder in the low to middle 40s. in terms of the rainfall, amounts are light unless you talk about bridgeport, an inch and a quarter. streets are damp. no big puddles. murky outside. low clouds are trying to thin out north and west. the rain moved out. the next heavy batch is way down in the gulf of mexico. this is a while before we get to the heavy rain. 12, 15 hours away. look at the warmth on the east coast. that is in the 70s coming up i- 95 for christmas eve. the lull that we are in with the rainfall will last until late tomorrow morning. prepare for that. fog and heavy rain. definitelying fog slow travel tomorrow in the afternoon hours. that will give rain to record

the warmest christmas here ever, according to lee goldberg. thank you, el nio. the benefits are obvious. running in the outdoors, wearing shorts. we're going to begin with meteorologist lee goldberg. >> it was a white-hot christmas. merry christmas, everyone. record highs in the park, tied at laguardia, bridgeport, islip some low clouds stopping temperatures near the coast today. there's temperature fire state building. can't really see lower manhattan because of low clouds and fog. we're at 60 degrees tomorrow. another mild overnight. we'll hit tomorrow's high at midnight because these numbers will drop closer to 50 by morning then hang out there much of the day. in a 30-mile span from jfk tore southern westchester you go from a half mile visibility to 10 miles. amazing how a little bit inland and we've had some breaks in the clouds. but we have the low clouds hanging tough along the coast. rainfall, got soaked in ocean county. good news, heavy rainfall is now moving away. look what's off to the west tomorrow. just some spotty drizzle despite a fair amount of c

lee goldberg outside our studio on the upper west side. >> december is still a no- show. you can see the lights in town and everybody holding shopping bags. outside of that no coats. the raincoat in another hour, 90 minutes or so. our temperatures are in the mid-60s and lower 70s. the normal high 43. we're just smashing records left and right. that camera is bouncing. there's no wind at the ground but there's obviously some winds aloft. so once it starts raining those gusty breezes may come down to the surface. conditions can change in a hurry tonight. visibility is improving from southwest to northeast. that's why temperatures responded nicely over parts of new jersey. we're all very mild in the upper 50s and lower 60s. in terms of rainfall, rain has already moved into sussex and passaic, back to newton. the heavy rain is now moving into the poconos. the steady rain that's west of philly, that's what's headed towards parts of central new york and new jersey. it's about an hour and a half away. between 9:00 and 8:00, downpours over the hudson northern new jersey. after th

vtech claims financial >>> and we now have jeff smith in for lee goldberg. he came in on a nice night. >> not a bad night. still 54 degrees. we got up to 68 after midnight. that made it for a record for today. just to put everything in perspective the warmth of this december so far is actually rivalling the cold of last february. about 11.3 degrees below average last february. remember how bitterly cold it was? the warmth is on the other side of average. we're just as extreme so far this month. right now that temperature 54 degrees that wind from the northwest. still gusting up to 23 miles per hour at times, calming down a little bit from earlier when it was gusting past 30 miles per hour across much of the area. again it got up to 68 just after midnight last night. that was a record for the day. the old record was 67 set back in 2008. normally we should only be getting up to 43 this time of year. normally we get down to look at these departures from normal. 11 degrees above normal in new york city. this is almost unheard of. even warmer in chicago. over 12

how she is now giving back. >>> and i'm meteorologist lee goldberg. the empire state building says it's christmas eve but on the west side everybody is dressed for spring. it's still in the upper 60s, and the official temperature in new york city around 70. a couple of sprinkles south and east of new york city. we're tracking santa with the help of "thor" rad and the meet the moore's! we're the moore family, and as you can see, we need an internet that can do more. we do more games, and more streaming. so we need more speed. that's why we switched to time warner cable. you can too. call now. now we can connect more devices, at the same time. the wifi in this house is amazing. so is my guacamole. hi grandma and grandpa! ha, look at that! [laughs] time warner cable even has an internet plan for us. get the internet speed that's right for you. from 3 megs to ultra fast 300 megs they even made it easy to switch with a one-hour arrival window. why settle for less, when you can get more! get 50 meg internet for $39.99 per month. call now. you could get free

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. >>> we now want to head back outside with meteorologist lee goldberg. no need for a coat tonight. lee. >> no kazakhstan cold here. temperatures in the 50s. folks are enjoying it, and at a time of the year when you think about the mall or indoors, think about hikes or pleasant. tonight it will feel a little on the cool side but we're still at 60 degrees and the high in the park 61. compare that to the averages. 44 over 33. those are your normals. nowhere near that in the seven- day accuweather forecast. our temperatures over the next seven hours dropping to the mid-50s. just some cloud cover keeping temperatures steady. a very pleasant evening. long island lower 50s. hudson valley, still near 60 in poughkeepsie. same thing in belmar. tomorrow morning clouds like this morning, maybe patchy fog, then the clouds will thin out allowing to us get in the low and middle sick. probably add three degrees to today's high. clouds thinning out to the west. then another batch of clouds that's the routine. it's not a deep blue clear sky warm-up. it's waves of high clouds. now that warm front is g

lee goldberg will have more on that. and the front plows through, snow and rain mix to lake michigan chicago. that's headed for detroit. that will come in this evening and tonight. we will get to 5:00, showers around, a few showers this evening. and then eventually the front is going to plow through and that's good news because we see the sun is shine returning tomorrow. but you can see by the clouds on the futurecast, the sloping northwest wind carrying the clouds across tomorrow. and that means windy with clearing skies and sunshine as the high comes across into friday. and we get the center of the high, we're at 51 on friday. and that will feel great. and the wins come around the southwest. and we warm into the mid-50s by sunday. and foggy, damp, rain and drizzle this afternoon. tonight, we've got a period of rain, tapers off to showers and then ends this 10:00, 11:00, closer to the midnight, 46 is the low. and then tomorrow, going to be start the day and then we get sunshine breaking through, it's windy, 52 degrees a

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. >>> we've got amy freeze in for lee goldberg. a lot of people are about to head out. >> it looks pretty good. especially when you consider how cold it can be in times square. people wait 8 to 10 hours for low 40s is what we're predicting for the midnight festivities. look at this beautiful shot. the empire state building is glittering and glistening like so many people leaving their homes tonight. and one world trade lit up as well. checking the numbers in central park, currently, 46. and the westerly influence to the wind has helped to bring warmer and drier air into the area. and the visibility is great all across the region. a normal high this time of year is 39. we beat that with 48 degrees. tomorrow we'll be colder. we have a downward trend with temperatures over the next couple of days. the first full day of january will feel like it. >> and we have mid- to upper 40s. and coolest spot is white plains. and really temperatures are going to hold onto their warmth as we get into the late night i don't expect many spots will dro

meteorologist lee goldberg outside our studio on the upper west side with the timing of the rain and how much of it we can expect. lee. >> sade, october, the sequel, 60 degrees here, another warm night, not much wind out. it feels great. but i will need the umbrella in a couple hours. let's look at lower manhattan. clouds thickened. at least the fog has lifted. an even 60 at 5:00. the visibility is still low in connecticut and long island. they have improved from the city in south and west. numbers over parts of interior new jersey got up to 60 degrees. to the east of new york city, upper 50s. valley. a couple of the first sprinkles trying to get into the delaware water gap, pike county and sullivan county. not a big daily. the steadiest rain hasn't even gotten to philly yet. i think those showers west of philly, 100 miles away, are two or three hours away. futurecast timing. by 7:00 or 9:00 rain moving there will probably be off and on rain throughout the evening. a couple of pockets will be moderate. then a squall line moving through overnight with the actual told front, and that wo

meteorologist lee goldberg is outside the studios. high, lee. >> hi, rob. it has been so warm that 60 and a breeze is chilly. you need the coat but it's mild. look at the numbers today. more record highs. 25 degrees above average. record highs bridgeport, islip, central park, newark, laguardia, j.f.k. we are at 59 degrees. there is the updated temperature under partly cloudy skies. the winds are gusting close to 40 miles per hour over the past few hours more like 25 miles per hour. but still a rather gusty evening until the storm to the north and east over the canadian maritimes moves away. futurecast wind speed gusty in the evening but look how the and 11:00 hour and by tomorrow morning calmer. also colder tomorrow morning as well. still 30 miles per hour gusts this evening then 35 to 45 by tomorrow morning. we haven't had that in a while. it's a calmer day tomorrow then a soaking rain and the big weekend cool down. that is coming up in weather. >>> we have any information about three arsons outside the police station in forest hills, queens. police have i

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newark reporting delays of an hour 51 minutes. >> meteorologist lee goldberg is tracking the rain and trying to avoid it. lee. >> i didn't plan on the sec at 4:00 and 5:00 but hat gone

. >> meteorologist lee goldberg is tracking it all. he is outside in this fog and rain to tell us all about it. lee. >> oh, my. it's miserable out here. this is about the worst it's been all day long. folks have to navigate through it. water's collecting on the crosswalks, visibility's low. it's slowing everything down to a crawl as we go through the afternoon, again, another look at lower manhattan where all the buildings are even height because we have a ceiling down to about 500 feet. the temperature's not the problem, the wind isn't the problem. it's light. the visibility, 8/10 of a mile in white plains. the dense fog advisory expired for now but could be reinstated. our visibilities are very low. you heard about the extensive airport delays that we'll confirm at the airports. i want to show you around the delays really close to the tri- state area and down toward philly. rainfall amounts haven't been that great yet. they are going to go up in a hurry as we close in on an inch of rain by later tonight. you see the yellows moving in

lee goldberg timing it all out for us. he's outside the studios with the exclusive accuweather forecast. >> it's coming down out here. there's a lot of water. and folks have to the navigate through this as they walk to the bus or subway or just walk home. take the big step over the crosswalk, water pooling there and puddles on the roads too. here's a look at central park. well, that doesn't look like central park but the visibility is low. it's a mild rain and temperatures are not the problem. we're at 59 degrees. look at the rainfall amount so far, that's newly updated, .80. new wash pushing an inch before the storm. and lighter amounts to the east but it's make up for lost time over long island. look at the rain over the five passaic, rockland county but the heaviest is over nassau and suffolk county. boy the l.i.e. and the southern state just a mess right now. and the good news, look at the back edge of the rain, almost getting to philadelphia in the next hour or so. and in fact, the back edge could start sneaking into

meteorologist lee goldberg tracking it all. he's in the weather center. >> bill and lauren, we're very fortunate to be on the benign balmy side of this weather pattern. the battle zone going on in the middle of the country, look at the past 48 hours. what i put on are some of the storm reports, hundreds of them including 40 tornado reports just from wednesday. today we're looking at flooding here's a look at some of the damage this christmas week. >> the christmas day cleanup, after a series of rare december tornadoes from arkansas to michigan. >> monster tornado. >> gwendolyn jones and her granddaughter lost their home in holly springs mississippi, at least eleven others lost their lives as more than 24 reported tornadoes barreled through this week. those communities now coming together on the holiday. donations pouring into this warehouse for families like the jones'. >> christmas, whether i have presents or not, that's not going to change christmas for me. >> the flood watches continue on this holiday for parts of the south.

meteorologist amy freeze is in for lee goldberg. >> and crunching the numbers, december will go down in the books as one of the warmest 13 to 14 degrees above the average. we could see some real january like weather showing up. getting back to reality. right now low to mid-40s on the map. the clouds are starting to part a bit. and as the ball drops, maybe a few patchy clouds will remain over times square as the temperatures go to 41 degrees. and as far as new year's eve goes, that's a real mild number. the coldest ever reported in times square, back in the 1917- degree range was seven below zero. i think we can take 41. i'll have the full forecast in a few minutes. >> don't forget new year's rockin' eve goaled by eyewitness news at 11. and we'll take you to times square and then at 11:30, back to ryan seacrest who counts down to midnight and the new app. >>> right now police in munich are asking germans to stay away from the main strain because of the a serious imminent threat of a terror attack. on facebook there's information tonight. the train station has been evacuated and trains

. >> first we want to get a check on the accuweather forecast from lee goldberg. >> good morning, merry christmas. the christmas barbecue is on. temperatures will be in the 60s today middle 60s, christmas eve was 72. that was only 3 degrees cooler than july 4th this year. we now have the warmest that happened just after midnight. no suspense there. we'll be back in the mid and upper 60s this afternoon. got a full moon, a few clouds around, a calm east river in new york harbor. a lot of fog along the coast. we drop below 60, chilly, 59 degrees, 7:18 is the sunrise. a little chilly north and west. the visibility is down not as bad in islip anymore. still in parts of long island down the shore it is very low and even into north central new jersey. the fog advisory was a allowed to expire on the island. it still goes until mid to late morning in parts of central and southern new jersey. be aware of that. clouds around, we'll have thin spots, get a little sunshine after the fog leaves us. we'll dry during the daylight hours into the mid-60s. humidity's down, and then some showers come back t

. >>> i'm meteorologist lee goldberg. traded in the rain and fog for sun. some strong winds. wind makes it feel cooler. 4 now. we'll let you know when the strong winds subside and if we have to worry about rain it's the holidays. and of course, everyone wants to get online at once. to watch things. buy things. but slow internet makes it hard. that's why it's time to get fios. and right now, you'll get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for 79.99 a month online for your first year. and with a 2 year agreement, we'll give you all the premium movie channels for a year. plus, 400 dollars back. so go online or call now. get out of the past. get fios. i'm not a fan of putting my personal info in these online shopping forms. hellloooo??? i don't have time to be filling out my address, i need to be buying a dress. less typing, more dancing. sfx: tango music como te llamas? yo soy camarones. dip me. the easier way to shop online. masterpass from mastercard and your bank. >>> an american sentenced to 20 years in peru prison is back in new york. she was paroled in 2010 but she wasn't al

meteorologist lee goldberg outside, exclusive accuweather forecast. more like a nuisance rain out there right? >> that's a great way to put it. actually, the rain got lighter than out here at the top of the show. fairly light rain intermittent. umbrella, layers underneath. it's still chilly. there's a picture of lower manhattan, see the ceiling lift a little bit but still not too far from about a thousand feet or so. jeff, you can advance that for us as we go through the afternoon hours we're seeing our temperatures that are in the upper 40s, maybe flirting with 50 degrees or so, not sure if you have control of that in the newsroom. want to see if we can advance this to show our graphics. right now our temperatures right now are in the upper 40s to around 50 degrees. we've got light rain across the area right now, and it looks like we're going to see our rain become more intermittent as we go through the evening hours at this point. all right, so we're going to talk about a break where we just have maybe a few hundredths of an inch of rainfall overnig

. >>> when we come back, lee goldberg with more on this unseasonally warm weather. how long will it continue? >>> you don't like being called sparkly. >> it doesn't convey the strength i would like. >> sparkly can be strong. >> yeah, i don't know about that. >> anyway. >> the necklace is sparkly. >> it was meant with love and a compliment. >>> outside we go. it's -- sparkly. >> sparkly. >> there is the george washington bridge right there with traffic moving not too bad 52 right now. pair of 6s with the humidity and the wind is out of the south at 3 miles per hour. barometer is holding steady. high 52. that is consistency when you talk about this planner. hovering in the low 50s much of the night. cloud cover coming in. wind off the water around that 50-degree number. average high 45. way above that the next several days. there are the sunrise and sunset times. clouds, areas of fog will come in not only tonight but the next few mornings. when you get mild in december like this and the cold longer nights you get areas of fog and drizzle. afternoons get milder. shower

. >>> let's get a check on the accuweather forecast with lee goldberg. lee. most spots, mild for sure. we have clear to partly cloudy skies from the city north and west. we have partly cloudy skies, nice sunrise. 66 after midnight. it's the warmest christmas on record. about a 24-degree range across the area, 39 in monticello, partly cloudy skies, a lot more cloudiness and fog along the coastline. that will try to lift, but clouds are going to hang tough along the coast. we get back into the middle 60s, a mix of sun and clouds, but more clouds. maybe a stray shower. better chance of showers later in the day and at night central and southern new jersey. tomorrow, a lot cooler and off and on showers not a washout but off and on drizzle about 52. record warmth on sunday. the record high will blast that, even with limited sun, a couple of showers later in the day. on monday a dramatic drop in temperatures, rain on tuesday, it's a chilly raw rain. if it comes in early enough, might be an icy mix. stays around 50s, upper 40s, midweek next week, 40s for new year's e

. >>> and i'm meteorologist lee goldberg. the docile december continues, temperatures running about 15 degrees above average. it was islip hitting a record of 61 pack in 2012. last year on this date we had snow after a nor'easter passed by. it's the holidays. and of course, everyone wants to get online at once. to watch things. buy things. but slow internet makes it hard. that's why it's time to get fios. it has the fastest internet and wifi available. with speeds from 50 to 500 megs. and right now, you'll get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for 79.99 a month online for your first year. and with a 2 year agreement, we'll give you all the premium movie channels for a year. plus, 400 dollars back. so go online or call now. >>> she died crying for help but help arrived far too late. a mother experiencing a seizure in a queens burger king bathroom that was locked. tonight her family says the fast food workers' inaction cost their mother her life and now they are suing. n.j. burkett is in jackson heights. n.j. >> reporter: well

we're going to start with meteorologist lee goldberg who's outside our studios on the upper west side. he's wearing a suit. last time this year i think you were wearing something much worse. >> had the big rocky jacket on last year. not this year. i mean i got a little extra layer as we go into the evening hours. it's fantastic out here. i missed mid-october. it's nice to be reunited. international. pretty good moves. let's look at lower manhattan where we have clouds. the clouds are starting to thin out, a lot of people walking by saying it's going to rain. this is what happens. when the clouds come in it can little mild. we're going to go through that through the upcoming weekend. the high so far is 60. normal high is 45. these normals. last year it was 38 and we had a trace of snowfall. upper 50s across the five boroughs outside the city generally in the mid-50s. look at the weekend outlook, 64 forecasting a record to be broken even though we have cloud cover. here's the lowdown. you get 11 straight above normal days to start december. we're on pace for the warmest december, a thir

we begin with meteorologist lee goldberg outside our studios on the upper west side. >> we've been getting soaked for about eight hours now. thankfully this is the last in the train of downpours coming through. >> reporter: it is the caboose. we've had a lot of opportunities to talk about tonight we're close to record rain. look at lower manhattan. the cloud cover down to 300 feet. so the low visibilities will be a concern. it is so warm outside we're at 64 degrees right now. an inch and a half in new york city. the record for the date is 1.6 inches from 1913. you can see the back ems approaching new york city. we've had thunderstorms over the east end over the past hour. now there's heavy rain over upper manhattan, bergen county, fort lee, over into rockland and westchester and fairfield county. futurescan showing that within an hour the back edge of moving into fairfield county and suffolk county. we're going from downpours to drizzle after midnight, and the street flooding will subside. good news for your morning travel but lingering low visibility will be a problem. we are obviously st

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on the unusual holiday weather and how people spent it tonight but we begin with meteorologist lee goldberg. >> shirleen, it was so bizarre walking around seeing everybody have their christmas dinners outside. remarkable. you won't forget this christmas eve and day. record highs at the park. add bridgeport to that list at 6 1-6r789 it felt like it should be fireworks. it was only three degrees cooler than our high on july 4th at 75. still at 11:00, the light show just ended on the empire state building, 67 degrees at 11:00. that's 30 degrees higher than it should be. island where dense fog has come in. same thing down the shore. there's a dense fog advisory for the island that will go until 6:00 in the morning. low cloudiness, a couple of light sprinkles. heavier showers over southern ocean county. we're tracking thunderstorms on christmas eve. so wacky. so fog will not slow santa down. we're tracking santa on norad. apparently around the northeast right now, so kids have until about the end of the newscast. more record warmth. rain may be knocking on the door by day's end. there is some wi

. >>> amy freese in for lee goldberg. what's going to happen inside the ferris wheel? we don't know. it's going to be an old navy and gap store. we do know that. there were people out earlier. they're gone. because of the rain. >> some light rain is falling in the area. we also have problems with patchy dense fog. mainly inland. it may slow down you getting home tonight. looking at the temperatures, it's not hard to see any skyline. usually we can see the east side pretty well. 46 degrees currently. we have the winds that are right now northeast. but they'll start to come out of the west. that's not going to help with the fog development. with we have this moisture at the surface. with that warmer air moving in, temperatures between 5 to 10 degrees warmer than they were yesterday at this time. that's going to keep warm moist air at the surface. that will help reduce the visibility and create more fog formation. less than a mile for poughkeepsie and less than three for morris town. this dense fog advisory for the counties in orange until 6:00 a.m. mainly up to the mid h

we begin with meteorologist lee goldberg. what a warm christmas eve. >> it's a south florida christmas, dave. guess what, i don't know if you see this but one of santa's elves. sir, would you forward just a little bit? one of santa's elves in flip- flops. this is only three degrees cooler than july 4th. check out the weather graphics. the warmest christmas eve ever, in the middle 70s. it continues to be a balmy night. there's the empire state building in christmas colors. an even 70 at 9:00. the normal high 41. look at those record highs shattering the daytime records. just a few degrees shy of the as warm as atlanta today and way warmer than phoenix and el paso. we have cooled off in the suburbs. there's a little area of showers working through morris county into essex and union county. a brief sprinkle in south brunswick. all those thunderstorms will stay off to the south. here is what you need to know. sick for santa. we are tracking somewhere over switzerland. more record warmth. rape could be knocking on the door by day'

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but first meteorologist lee goldberg is outside our studios on the upper west side. lee. >> the overcoat is overkill. it's like an october night. we're actually up two degrees to 55. look at the daytime highs. 60 in many spots. above average. 55 in new york city, even our coolest suburbs are in the 20s earlier in the week are around 40 degrees. it is amazing to think last year on this date it was an inch of snow after a nor'easter. pattern. the jet stream has lifted to the north. the cold air can't come east. it is a classic el nio pattern. for tomorrow mild out the door around 50. low 40s in the coolest spots with the help of sunshine we're back to sunshine. it only gets warmer into the weekend. coming up we talk record highs, raising temperatures over the weekend and the latest on the timing for the rainfall next week. take from the an ivy league student, andrew goes to columbia, this is the smart way to dress tonight on the upper west side. >> we'll sigh in a few minutes. we do joke about to warm weather but the look of cold weather is taking something of a financi

meteorologist lee goldberg outside sans overcoat. >> it is one thing to forecast it. it is at thing to forecast it. it is incredible. our temperature at 11:00 is 57. it typically this time of night, this time of year, in the upper 30s so nowhere like that. our numbers today anywhere from 15 to even 20 degrees above average. the average high is 44 degrees. last year on this date it was 38. we had a trace of snowfall. it was a gusty wind that felt like freezing. nothing like that now. suburbs that dipped into the 20s are in the upper 40s now. upper 40s and low your day tomorrow. i'm forced to raise our weekend. look what's going on. valley. the 70-degree temperatures are going to get awfully close. the new weekend outlook. still going for mid-60s tomorrow, shy of a record, but raised the sunday number to 67, maybe even a 70 across interior parts of new jersey because i do think the clouds are going to thin out. so now every december day has been above average. we're on the pace for the warmest december. three more 60-degree days. that will make it five. first time in 17

meteorologist lee goldberg at the weather wall. we're definitely going to need that umbrella. >> had some rain a couple days ago, now more rain moving in. wet streets is what will you run into tomorrow morning. clouds and patchy drizzle through early tomorrow morning. the wind is calm and mild temperatures. winds start to move in and work off to the west. drifnl nassau county over the sound. westchester, fairfield, parts of new york city as well. that's through tomorrow morning. this is the steadier rain for tomorrow afternoon, still a ways away. watch the futurecast. tomorrow morning. steadier rain by late morning especially heavy along the york city. we will still get rain north and west. this will be with us through late afternoon and starter to taper off. drizzle for your morning heaviest along the coast. the rain will taper by evening. up to an i remember and a quarter in spots. forecast. a rare blast of chill. that's all in a few minutes. >>> new tonight possible legal problems for a school district in new jersey. prosecutors

meteorologist lee goldberg is outside our studios without a coat >> maybe it's pushing it a little bit over the next couple of hours as the breeze picks up. otherwise, it's only 0 christmas lights and holiday shopping bags that would tell you it's december. it's 60 degrees at 6:00. a beautiful look at midtown. a great night to walk around. no need to use the subway. stay above ground. it's too nice. the high was 61. 17 degrees above our normal high of 44. pretty amazing considering it was 38 last year on this date, a trace of snow in the morning hours. most of our suburbs still nice and mild. he pattern. the cold can't come east. 64 saturday, four degrees shy of a record high. we're forecasting a broken record high on sunday at 66 despite the fact we have cloud cover around sunday mixed with subpoena. every day so far in december above normal. a third of the way through on pace for the warmest december on record. it would be the first time in 17 years we've had five straight days in the 60s in december. the next three days are in the 60 now. record highs on sunday, then a blast of wint

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. >>> straight ahead, usually this time of year lee goldberg gets kudos for how he is handling the temperatures. ment now he is getting kudos for his beautiful sunset videos. you can smell it in the air. now it smells like spring. >> it's shampoo. >> this is where we are at. this is what we have come to, nice shampoo. >> outside we go. we have a mainly clear night to cloudy over parts of eastern long island and another beautiful sunset. 90,000 people saw the sunset time lapse yesterday. >> how many would have seen the snowstorm. >> last year we were waiting on one inch of snow on the tenth. we lost winter was over and what happened? 50 inches of snow. we are at 45. calm wind. pressure on the rise. high just shy of 50 degrees. next seven hours in the middle 40s. calm winds. average high 45. way above that the next few days. we may get to record highs over the weekend. patchy fog late tonight into tomorrow morning. a gradual warm up as we go through the week. time we get to sunday. speaking of the weekend forecast, let's get to it. the weekend. 64 conservative. i could see a 66 or 67 there. in 19

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that bring us together, and sometimes it's simple things, like the weather, and meteorologist lee goldberg. we count on you for that. >> especially when things are improving. it's nice to get the sunshine back. wet weather just about over. outside we go. finally we have bert visibility. we can actually see new york city again. our camera over astoria not bouncing yet but as that wind picks up our cameras will get hammered tomorrow because we will get winds that will gust to 35 or 40 miles per hour. 55 degrees our temperature at 11:00. super mild. westerly wind at 5, but it's nice to see a westerly wind rather than the wind off the water. the high today 57, rung nine degrees above average. about half an inch of rainfall. a few spots saw three-quarters of an inch, like white plains, also do you know the shore. there are your sunrise and sunset times. more sun on thursday. notice we're getting into the 40s. 55 in newark. from west to east cooler air moves in. still near 60 in montauk right now. visibility also increasing. you see how it is low in connecticut and suffolk county, the visibility

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meteorologist lee goldberg at the weather sphwhiew. sade it's been raining off and on for almost 24 hours and we still have another 24 hours to it's light rain. not seeing a lot of umbrellas as we're in a lull. visibility is variable. it's lower down the shore. you may have some fog that morning. rainfall amounts average about a third of an inch, as low as .15 in dan bur rather, as high as .9 in toms river. the radar has gone light as of late. patchy drizzle. this area here a little steadier, and then this is your heavier rain for the afternoon hours. watch the futurecast. a little bit more rain for the morning commute but most of it light. a couple of moderate pockets. then it is getting heavier. probably a lot more know. a slow morning commute with light rain and fog. the steady rain is likely to develop midday, maybe first north and west, then across the entire area. the rain will taper tomorrow evening. total rainfall on average will be near an inch. more on the rain timing and the blustery conditions behind the storm in a few minu