Long Island weather: Rainy, chilly Saturday with high not topping 44

It will be a chilly, rainy weekend on Long Island with showers expected on Saturday through Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

The temperature on Saturday isn’t expected to break 44 degrees. Most of the rainfall will happen before 11 a.m., and then it will continue to drizzle into the afternoon, according to Jay Engle, a National Weather Service meteorologist.

“Rain is starting to taper to just some drizzle and showers. That will be the case for the rest of today,” Engle said. It will be] “breezy and windy, with gusts as high as 35 miles an hour. Temperatures will be in the low- to mid 40s.”

The National Weather Service has also issued a “Coastal Flood Statement” that will be in effect until noon on Sunday. Engle said any flooding would be “very minor,” so Long Islanders need not worry, especially if they aren’t in an area that typically experiences flooding.

It will be “a half-foot of inundation, at most. It would just be for the most vulnerable locations that typically see coastal flooding,” Engle told Newsday. “It would just be a very minor amount of water inundation. We’re not expecting anything major.”

Light rain will continue into Saturday night, when temperatures are expected to drop into the 30s. That will be made worse by windchills, which Engle said could be in the 20s on Saturday night.

The rain is expected to let up on Sunday morning around 8 a.m. It’s expected to remain cloudy throughout that day, but temperatures will rise into the mid-50s, and then it could get into the 60s on Monday.

“Monday mostly sunny near 60, like upper 50s,” Engle said. “There could be some quick rain — nothing heavy, light rain — Monday night.”

The nice weather is expected to continue into Tuesday, when it’s slated to be sunny and in the mid-60s.