Barton Silverman/The New York Times No ice in the forecast, except at hockey rinks.It’s October. The leaves are turning, it gets dark by dinnertime and ice hockey season is starting.
Yet the weather seems stuck in summer reruns.
Today, with an expected high of 79 under sunny skies, will be the third day in a row with highs around or above 80.
Things won’t cool off much till Monday, though clouds will come tomorrow.
A high-pressure system stalled out over the Southeast is partly responsible. But so is, strangely, a large low-pressure one threatening to snow on the northern Plains.
As the low spins, counterclockwise, it flings warmth from the Southwest in our direction.
“There’s warmer air coming off both of these systems and eventually moving into our area,†said David Stark, a National Weather Service meteorologist.
Tonight, the New York Rangers open their season in Phoenix. They don’t come home until Oct. 29.
Maybe it will feel like hockey season by then.
Here’s what else you need to know for Thursday.
COMMUTE
Subways: Fine so far. Click for latest status.
Rails: Metro-North’s New Haven line is running at only 50 percent capacity while a power line gets repaired. See advisory, schedule and map of temporary park-and-ride lots at other stations.
Roads: No major delays. Click for traffic map or radio report on the 1s.
Alternate-side parking is in effect all week.
COMING UP TODAY
- A mayoral candidate media blitz: Bill de Blasio is on 1010-WINS at 7:30 a.m., WCBS-880 at 3:30 p.m. and NY1’s “Road to City Hall†at 7 p.m.
- Joseph J. Lhota is on “Good Day New York†on Fox at 8:10 a.m. He also just released his first television ad of the general election campaign.
- The Pulitzer-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri reads from her new book, “The Lowland,†at Barnes and Noble in Union Square. 7 p.m. [Free]
- A 24-hour silent piece by the “social choreographer†Ernesto Pujol, “Time After Us,†features 24 artists walking backwards at St. Paul’s Chapel downtown. Starts at 10:30 a.m. [Free]
- Mitch Broder, author of “Discovering Vintage New York: A Guide to the City’s Timeless Shops, Bars, Delis & More,†speaks at the Mid-Manhattan Library. 6:30 p.m. [Free]
- Take a guided twilight tour of Prospect Park. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. [$10]
- For more events, see The New York Times Arts & Entertainment guide. Or check out Club Free Time, where we found some of these events.
AND FINALLY…
At 11 a.m. today, barring disaster, a 41-year-old man will put in at a marina in Hoboken and cross the Hudson River to Manhattan.
On a bike.
His name is Judah Schiller, and he has rigged up a bicycle with raft floats and a mechanism that converts pedaling into water power.
It only takes him about ten minutes to turn his road bike into a seaworthy vessel. (See video.)
Mr. Schiller, a California marketing executive, believes that water cycling can be a viable commuting alternative.
He has already proven that it can be done without drowning. Last week, he biked the four miles from Oakland to San Francisco across the East Bay.
Joseph Burgess contributed reporting.
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