National Weather Service Issues Red Flag Warning For Long Island

On Oct. 29 and Oct. 30 in Islip, there was one-hundredth of an inch of rain.

"That's barely enough to wet the ground," he said. "The last time we had anything that was a little more significant, you got to go back to Oct. 7, in which we had a 10th of an inch of rain. So that's kind of giving a sense of how dry the whole month of October was only 1.2 inches of rain."

As for the smell of smoke in the air Friday morning, it's not the big wildfire in New Jersey drifting over to Long Island, but smaller brush fires.

"It's kind of a chilly morning, what you can have is what we call something called a temperature inversion," he said. "It's actually colder down at the ground, then higher up. So what happens, even if there were some brush fires around, a lot of that smoke can get trapped down at the ground, so that probably just kind of intensifies maybe the smell that you may kind of get up early in the morning."

"They smell that," he said, adding that as the morning goes on, the ground heats up and that smell gets "mixed out a little bit more."