Heavy rain and gusty winds are expected to impact Staten Island Thursday into Friday as a low pressure system moves through the region. Residents should prepare for 1.5 to 2 inches of rainfall and wind gusts up to 35 mph.<\/p>\n
According to the National Weather Service<\/a>, a frontal system will approach Staten Island Wednesday night, with the first wave of precipitation beginning overnight. The most significant rainfall will occur Thursday afternoon into Thursday night, when showers could become locally heavy and squally. Urban and poor drainage flooding is possible during this period, though widespread significant flooding is not expected.<\/p>\n Wind gusts around 35 mph are forecast near coastal areas on Thursday, with gusts potentially reaching 35-40 mph on Friday as the storm system exits into Canada and deepens. The weather service notes there is a low probability that wind gusts could exceed 45 mph on Friday.<\/p>\n Temperatures on Wednesday will reach the mid-50s under mostly dry conditions, though some morning drizzle is possible. Thursday will be warmer with highs in the upper 50s to mid-60s as warm air moves in ahead of the approaching storm system.<\/p>\n Friday will see temperatures cool back down to the mid to upper 50s degrees as the storm system moves away. Strong winds will continue through at least Saturday afternoon before gradually subsiding.<\/p>\n The weekend forecast shows improving conditions as high pressure builds in. Saturday will remain breezy with winds gradually diminishing through Saturday night. Sunday appears to be calmer with more favorable conditions.<\/p>\n A draft of this story was generated using AI. It was reviewed, edited and approved by Advance\/SILive.com staff.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy rain and gusty winds are expected to impact Staten Island Thursday into Friday as a low pressure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-21405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21405","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=21405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}