NYC Weather Forecast: Snow Returns With 1 Inch Likely Thursday
December 14, 2017 by admin
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NEW YORK, NY — Winter is here and the snow is on its way back. There’s a 60 percent chance of flakes falling in New York City on Thursday morning, according to the National Weather Service’s latest forecast.
Up to an inch of snow is expected to fall on Central Park by early Thursday afternoon, with most coming down before 8 a.m. according to the NWS’ projections.
Thursday’s high temperature will likely be just 34 degrees, with wind chills making it feel as cold as 20 degrees.
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This week’s cold front will bring much less than snow than the 4.5 inches a winter storm dropped on Central Park on Saturday in the city’s first snowfall of the season.
Unlike Saturday’s heavy storm, this week’s snowfalls probably won’t make traveling too difficult. But if snow does come, watch out for slippery sidewalks.
Here’s a detailed look at this week’s weather forecast courtesy of the National Weather Service.
Today
Mostly sunny, with a high near 31. Wind chill values between 10 and 20. Windy, with a west wind 23 to 28 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.
Tonight
Snow likely, mainly after 5am. Mostly cloudy, with a steady temperature around 29. Wind chill values between 15 and 20. Breezy, with a west wind 15 to 20 mph decreasing to 9 to 14 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.
Thursday
Snow likely, mainly before 8am. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 34. Wind chill values between 20 and 25. Northwest wind 9 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 23. Wind chill values between 15 and 20. Northwest wind 7 to 11 mph.
Friday
Mostly cloudy, with a high near 32. West wind 5 to 7 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28.
Saturday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 37.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 28.
Sunday
Partly sunny, with a high near 41.
Sunday Night
A 40 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 36.
Monday
Partly sunny, with a high near 47.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 36.
Tuesday
Partly sunny, with a high near 46.
(Lead image: A cyclist rides by snow-covered trees and cars in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn on Saturday. Photo by Michael Heiman/Getty Images)
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Why Sister Rosetta Tharpe Belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
December 14, 2017 by admin
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Gripe all you like about deserving acts overlooked by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but no artist has been more overdue for recognition than Sister Rosetta Tharpe, whose induction into the Hall’s “Influences” category was announced this morning. A queer black woman from Arkansas who shredded on electric guitar, belted praises both to God and secular pleasures, and broke the color line touring with white singers, she was gospel’s first superstar, and she most assuredly rocked.
Tharpe’s first hit, in fact, was the transformed spiritual “Rock Me,” recorded with her soaring held notes and sexy growls back in 1938 – when the latter-day King of Rock Roll, Elvis Presley, was still a toddler. Tharpe would later hire Grand Old Opry stars the Jordanaires to back her, years before they began working for Presley, who was her unabashed fan. “Elvis loved Sister Rosetta,” recalled the Jordanaires’ Gordon Stoker, especially her “incredible” guitar style. “That’s what really attracted Elvis: her pickin’. He liked her singing, but he liked that pickin’ first – because it was so different.”
Tharpe was an influence on other early rockers, too, including Chuck Berry. Later ones took note as well. “Sister Rosetta Tharpe was anything but ordinary and plain,” said Bob Dylan on his Theme Time Radio Hour show. “She was a big, good-lookin woman, and divine, not to mention sublime and splendid. She was a powerful force of nature. A guitar-playin’, singin’ evangelist.” More recently, reigning country queen Miranda Lambert has been opening shows with an iconic clip of Tharpe performing “Up Above My Head.”
Born Rosetta Nubin in Cotton Plant, Arkansas in 1915, the young prodigy was performing gospel music with her mother at churches and revivals by age six, when the two moved north to Chicago. Tharpe’s singing and guitar style developed with both rural and urban elements, which gave her a broad appeal. In her teens, she married a preacher, who she soon left, heading to New York CIty. There, she played with Duke Ellington and other top musicians. By her twenties, she’d hit her stride; after years working up north with swing bandleader Lucky Millinder, she toured the south with fellow gospel icons the Dixie Hummingbirds. In 1945, her jaunty single “Strange Things Happening Every Day,” with its hot guitar solo, was the first gospel single to cross over on the Billboard race charts.
A year later, she met the singer Marie Knight. The pair recorded “Up Above My Head,” and set out to tour as a self-contained team: Knight sang and played piano; Tharpe sang and played both guitar and piano. They became lovers, an “open secret,” according to historian Gayle Wald, author of the essential biography Shout, Sister, Shout! Tharpe’s relationship with Knight eventually faded, and in 1951 – over two decades before Sly Stone thought to get hitched in Madison Square Garden – Tharpe got married to her third husband in Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. The concert and promotional stunt drew 25,000, many with gifts.
Tharpe’s career waned over the next decade. In 1964, as the folk revival was cresting, she was booked for the Folk Blues and Gospel Caravan tour in England, and she played a famous gig in an abandoned railroad station that was broadcast nationwide by Granada television. It was a cold and rainy day, but Tharpe got out of a horse-drawn carriage like royalty, strode across the wet platform, picked up her electric guitar, plugged in, and played “Didn’t It Rain,” electrical-shock risk apparently be damned, soloing and singing her heart out in front of a crowd of young people. “I’m sure there are a lot of young English guys who picked up electric guitars after getting a look at her,” Dylan said.
Tharpe’s career didn’t get the same bump that male blues musicians did in the late Sixties and Seventies, no doubt in part because of her devotion to religious material. Her last known recording was in 1970, for Danish TV, singing the Thomas Dorsey gospel standard “Take My Hand, Precious Lord,” a song Elvis Presley had recorded, among many others. Tharpe died in 1973, in Philadelphia, where she’d been living with her mother in a modest home. The funeral was small; Marie Knight did her makeup and helped select her clothing for burial.
Though her work has been largely forgotten, it’s ripe for discovery. And as her induction should testify, the spirit of Sister Rosetta Tharpe is conjured every time a rock musician plugs in and aims for rapture. “When you see Elvis Presley singing early in his career … imagine he is channeling Sister Rosetta Tharpe,” Wald has suggested. “It’s not an image I think we’re used to thinking about when we think of rock roll history – we don’t think about the black woman behind the young white man.”