Rain is likely Wednesday night into Thursday, with a potential for an inch of precipitation, according to the weather service’s New York office, which covers Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic and Union counties. The weather service office in Mount Holly agreed with the timing of precipitation, noting that it could be accompanied by windy conditions.

We have a Red Flag Warning in effect through 6pm Saturday due to the breezy and dry weather. Temperatures this afternoon reach the upper 50’s to around 60° in the valley, lower and middle 50’s for the Berkshire’s.

Wind gusts will be up to 30 mph. with relative humidity below 25% on Saturday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.

Dry conditions in the Northeast are worsening, creating a scenario for fire danger in the region to persist, an updated map from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows. The worst of the drought conditions are located in a large swath of West Virginia,