STORM WATCH: Showers this evening; heavier rain to slow travel at times Friday

I'm meteorologist Rich Hoffman, your hyper local weather forecast. We have a couple of light showers this afternoon, so watch out for the leaves, slick roads, but the rain comes in Friday, especially during the morning with the threat of some thunderstorms and your weekend right now. Kind of that mixture of sun and clouds with a spotty shower on Saturday. So we have to watch the wet weather. Round one light showers moving through Nassau and Suffolk County this afternoon. At times it's a little drizzle or mist. Now take a look where we watch this heavy rain threat. towards this evening, 9:30 tonight. There's that wet weather, so we have some showers for our evening rush hour through tonight. Then, tomorrow morning, take a look at this. We're watching it around 5 a.m. When you see yellow and orange on our Futurecast, that's where we have the potential of some moderate to heavy rain. Right now, it looks like the worst of the rain is setting up through Suffolk County. Look at this, 8, 9, 10 o'clock in the morning. This will impact the morning rush hour, not only by driving, but this could impact the trains If some of those leaves are down, wet leaves on the tracks could pose a problem for the LIRR. Also, getting the kids to school in the morning, have that umbrella handy. And because of all the leaves down, there could be some localized street flooding with those storm drains getting clogged. So be weather aware on your Friday morning. We go towards noon. The heaviest rain is just south of Long Island. We'll have to track where that band goes. But the weather gets better during the afternoon hours. For a bit, more showers Friday evening. And then heading into your weekend, some sunshine on Saturday. And then late Saturday afternoon through Saturday evening, a spotty rain shower. And then we're looking at sunshine and a nice Sunday afternoon. rainfall how much right now the worst of it from around Brentwood to Shirley out towards the Twin Forks. That's where we're looking at one to three maybe up to four inches lighter amounts northern Nassau County. So there will be a sharp line from moderate rain to heavy rain temperatures the rest of the afternoon. We're in the upper 60s to low 70s. We have cloudy skies. We have some scattered showers and it's a bit breezy at times. Warm muggy overnight 50s and 60s tracking that rain. Watch out for wet roads, leaves down. Poor visibility Friday morning, impacting that morning rush hour. Be careful. Spotty showers Saturday afternoon. Don't forget to download that News 12 app. Matt Hammer will have more details on the storm as we go towards this evening.