{"id":185043,"date":"2026-04-04T01:31:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185043\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T01:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:31:24","slug":"rainy-weather-returns-to-new-york-area-for-easter-sunday-get-the-first-alert-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185043\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainy weather returns to New York area for Easter Sunday. Get the First Alert Forecast."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easter weekend kicks off with May-like weather in the New York area before rain returns for the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Friday night will be rather mild, with lows only dropping into the 50s in most locations. A stray shower is possible, mainly northwest of the city, while some patchy fog may develop, especially along the coast.<\/p>\n<p>As for Saturday, a return to May-like temperatures is expected. For areas away from the immediate coastline, highs will surge into the low and mid 70s. Meanwhile at the coast, highs will struggle to get out of the low 60s and even 50s.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/md-futurelocal-graf.png#.png\" alt=\"md-futurelocal-graf.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>Despite the chance of a few isolated showers, most of the day is looking dry with a mix of sun and clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Mild temperatures with a few showers will then define Easter Sunday. To begin the day, mostly cloudy skies will be in place, with a slim chance of showers.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/easter-planner.png#.png\" alt=\"easter-planner.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>From around noon through about 5 p.m., a round of showers will move through. The showers will be light to moderate at times, with an isolated rumble of thunder mixed in. Due to the quick-moving nature of these showers, rainfall amounts won&#8217;t be high, generally totaling around a half an inch or less.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fa-futurecast-rainfall-ibm-graf.png#.png\" alt=\"fa-futurecast-rainfall-ibm-graf.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>Showers should clear out by dinnertime, leaving the possibility of a nice sunset to end the day. Highs will top out in the low to mid 60s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Easter weekend kicks off with May-like weather in the New York area before rain returns for the holiday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-185043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}