Long Island, NY Weather & 7-Day Forecast
Live conditions, hourly and 7-day outlook for Long Island — plus what this week's weather means for your refrigerator, washer, dryer and dishwasher.
Next 24 hours in Long Island
All times shown in Long Island local time (EST).
7-day forecast for Long Island, NY
What this week's weather means for your appliances
Wet air slows the dryer
Rain chances reach 89% this week. Humid air makes a dryer work harder, so a load that suddenly needs two cycles is far more often a lint-choked vent than a failed heating element.
Heavy rain and the laundry room
Downpours are in the forecast around Tomorrow. Water on a basement or garage floor reaches a washer or dryer motor long before it damages the cabinet, and a clogged exterior vent hood fills with water instead of venting — both are worth a look before the rain arrives.
Appliances and the Long Island climate
Long Island is maritime: summers a few degrees cooler than the city, winters a few degrees milder, and far more wind and salt spray than inland.
Being surrounded by water changes two things. Salt-laden air reaches appliances in garages, basements and utility rooms across both counties, and it corrodes condenser fins and exposed fasteners faster than inland air does — rust on the back of a fridge is routine here, not a sign of neglect. The second is outages: nor'easters and tropical systems regularly cut power to the Island, and the voltage irregularity on restoration is a leading cause of dead control boards on washers, dryers and dishwashers.
BostonFix Appliance Repair covers Hempstead, Islip, Huntington, Babylon, Freeport, Hicksville, Levittown and Nassau and Suffolk County. If a refrigerator, freezer, washer, dryer, dishwasher, oven or range is not keeping up with the weather on this page, call (888) 350-8655 or book a visit online — same-day appointments are usually available, and every repair carries a 90-day warranty.
Weather in other BostonFix service areas
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), refreshed at least every 30 minutes. All times and dates on this page are Long Island local time (America/New_York — EST). Forecasts are not a substitute for official warnings from the National Weather Service.