Dry, sunny week ahead; Humberto unlikely to impact Long Island, forecasters say

The week will be dry and sunny, with minimal impacts from two tropical storms raging in the Atlantic Ocean, forecasters said.

Monday will be mostly sunny with a high temperature of about 77 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. The average high for the date in Islip is 70 degrees.

Monday, a 7 to 9 mph wind is expected out of the northeast, shifting to coming out of the southeast in the afternoon.

Monday night will be mostly cloudy with a low temperature of around 61 degrees, according to the weather service.

Clouds are forecast for Tuesday with clear skies returning Wednesday, with more brisk, typically fall temperatures. While the high temperature Tuesday is expected to be around 78 degrees, Wednesday's high is expected to be only about 68, and the following day a few degrees cooler, about 64.

Friday should be mostly sunny with a high temperature of around 64 degrees.

Farther south, Hurricane Humberto, the second category 5 storm this season, is raging in the subtropical Atlantic, and Tropical Depression Nine is moving north from Cuba and the Bahamas. Those storms are not expected to bring much disturbance as far north as Long Island, according to Bill Goodman, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Upton.

"The core of the hurricane will be hundreds of miles away," Goodman said, so local impacts will be mild.

"It looks like on Wednesday there could be some high surf," with "offshore wave heights probably getting up to 8 to 11 feet," Goodman said, adding gusty northeast winds are possible.

"We don’t think there will be any coastal flooding of the back bays or the [Long Island] Sound."