Beautiful evening; severe storm risk for Tuesday across Long Island

I'm meteorologist Rich Hoffman your hyperlocal weather forecast. We're in storm watch now for today. The rest of today It's a gorgeous afternoon with that sunshine and dry weather conditions a top 10 afternoon We're looking at low humidity a high near 80 now going towards tomorrow afternoon. We're watching stormy weather There's gonna be the threat of heavy rain and some gusty winds and then some nice weather Wrapping up our workweek going into the weekend. So the storm prediction center has us in a slight risk of Severe storms that could mean winds up to 60 miles per hour Also the potential of a weak tornado and the best chance of that will be in western Suffolk County over to Nassau County back into New Jersey, New York City those areas the window is from noon to 9 p.m On your Tuesday. So if you headed to Jones Beach Tuesday night, you have to be weather aware You can track the rain by downloading our news 12 app. You're gonna get weather alerts straight to your phone So here's the timing of that storm. Here's one o'clock. Notice the areas of yellow red and maroon. That's what's coming on through That's what we have the potential of these torrential downpours and a chance of some damaging winds We're gonna be watching that very closely as we go towards your Tuesday evening then by Tuesday night. The weather is improving Wednesday most of Wednesday's dry. It does look like there may be a couple of pop-up showers into your afternoon So for today 70s to around 80 degrees it looks great outside for today low humidity good air quality then for tonight Increasing clouds this evening's beautiful overnight lows will be in the upper 60s and low 70s and in your 10-day forecast Tuesday afternoon, we're watching these scattered showers and storms where not everyone gets the bad weather It will be some quick downpours and some gusty winds chance of some showers Wednesday Then the nice weather returns Thursday Friday Saturday into the weekend high temperatures overall around 80 85 with that sunshine