Warm, dry conditions ahead for Long Island before rain chances return late week

I'm meteorologist Rich Hoffman. Your high for local weather forecast. Temperatures this week are going to be above average. Look at that. Our typical average high is near 58 degrees. I don't think we get any records, but we're going to be right around 70 degrees as we go through the next couple of days, and our dry trend continues. We're at 15 days. Today is actually day 16, and we're more than two inches below average as far as rainfall goes since October 1st. I haven't had a lot of rain. We've been very dry. And we do start to see some changes by the time we head towards the end of the week. We had a few early passing clouds. Otherwise, you have sunshine for the rest of today. And let's take a look around Stony Brook this afternoon. 4 o'clock temperature in the lower 60s. We top out to a high of around 64 degrees. Through this evening, generally clear skies through midnight. You're in the 50s by tomorrow morning. You'll wake up to temperatures around 45 degrees in Stony Brook. So you can see here we have the dry weather conditions. Going towards today, tomorrow, Wednesday, still remaining dry. Look at Wednesday afternoon. Temperatures are on the rise. During the afternoon hours, upper 60s to low 70s. Yeah, so the temperature is well above average. Again, our typical average high is about 58. Wednesday evening, some clouds will start to move in. And then during the day on Thursday, cloudy skies towards the evening hours. Rain showers come in. Now, one of the things we need to pinpoint is exactly where the heaviest rain. It may be actually offshore a little bit, so we'll have to watch that. But there will be the threat of rain Thursday evening, Friday into early on Saturday morning. Recapping today, mostly sunny skies. It's mild. Temperatures are in the 60s for today. 40s tonight, a little bit on the chilly side going into your Tuesday morning. Election day looking good. Mid and upper 60s. Maybe a little bit breezy in the afternoon, but the dry weather trend is good. Today, tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday clouds come in. Rain showers towards Thursday evening, Friday and early Saturday morning will dry things out Saturday afternoon into Sunday. Again, don't forget to download the News 12 app to get all the weather alerts and the updated forecast on the go.