Sounds like a big storm is coming our way. This from the New York Daily News:

The New York area will be soaked and wind-whipped by “a storm of history” that could arrive late tonight and stretch over three days, a National Weather Service meteorologist warned yesterday.

Several inches of rain and winds gusting to 40 mph will lash the city in a classic nor’easter, exposing the Long Island and New Jersey shorelines to damaging tidal surges, said Mike Musher, chief meteorologist for the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center in Maryland.

“I would call it a storm of history….If this happened in winter, it would bring us the blizzard of the century,” Musher said.

Gov. Spitzer yesterday put the National Guard on alert for potential flooding and power losses downstate and impassable roads north of the city, where a foot of snow is forecast.

“It is imperative that the public be aware of the potential problems associated with this storm and plan accordingly,” Spitzer said.

The meteorologist said the storm, which has already struck hard in the nation’s midsection, could stall over the city until Tuesday.

In addition, unseasonably frigid air is making its way up from the South, raising the possibility that snow will mix with rain locally before turning to all rain tomorrow, the National Weather service said.

Sunday “is just going to be a miserable day,” Musher said