Long Island Hour-By-Hour New Year's Eve Forecast

BY PATCH STAFF

We’ve made it through another year and for many of us we’ll be traveling on New Year’s Eve to celebrate with family and friends to ring in 2016.

Last year, snow was on the ground and it was freezing cold, well what a difference a year makes!

We’re looking at a relatively good forecast for New Year’s Eve. No, it won’t be in the 60s like it was on Christmas Day but Long Island will see temps in the upper 40s and may hit 50. Today will feature plenty of sunshine during the day and at night it will be partly cloudy, with no chance of precipitation. It will be around 38 degrees on Long Island when the ball drops in Times Square.

We’ll break that down more in a minute with an hour-by-hour forecast.

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But beginning on New Year’s Day, the mild temps we’ve been accustomed to in December begin to go away and we’re left with seasonal temps but nothing but sunshine. No snow or storms are on the horizon through Wednesday.

On New Year’s Day temps will be in the low-to-mid 40s with sunshine. Saturday and Sunday also include more sun and temps near 40 degrees.

On Monday it’s cold with temps around 35 degrees for a high or the coldest day of the season thus far. At night the mercury will drop into the mid-20s.

Hour-by-Hour Long Island Temps on New Year’s Eve:

12 p.m. = 51 degrees

3 p.m. = 49 degrees

6 p.m. = 44 degrees

8 p.m. = 41 degrees

10 p.m. = 39 degrees

Midnight = 38 degrees