Thunderstorms, Heavy Downpours, To Hit Long Island On Sunday

LONG ISLAND, NY — Get your umbrellas ready, Long Island.

The National Weather Service announced a hazardous weather outlook for Sunday, predicting "heavy downpours" from Northeastern showers and thunderstorms.

As of Friday morning, the service said that the best chance for heavy rainfall will be Sunday afternoon and night as a frontal wave along a stalled out boundary potentially moves into the area. However, there is still a "decent amount" of uncertainty where the axis of heaviest rainfall will be.

"Rainfall rates could reach 2 inches per hour in some locations as the system moves along on Sunday from the southern Appalachians and mid-Atlantic to eastern New York and central and western New England from Sunday night to early Monday," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Adam Douty said.

The rain may cause flooding of "urban, low lying" or poor drainage areas and small streams and creaks, the service said.

Rain is predicted to continue on Long Island through Monday with a 40 perent chance of precipitation.

It is also possible that some of that smoke could reach part of the Northeast next week, AccuWeather said.

Meteorologist predict that a large, strong storm that will develop near Hudson Bay, Canada. The counterclockwise circulation of this massive storm may direct thick smoke from wildfires in western Canada into the North Central states — and possibly the Northeast — from later this weekend into next week.