The site displays the same easy to read daily forecasts that appear in the daily paper, plus any late breaking forecasts and alerts from the weather service. You can also call up radar images for Long Island easily. However, they opt to display the actual video from their TV news casts. This is a nifty feature - however, you have to download some special software to view the videos, which appear like a slideshow, rather than true moving images. Unless you really want to spend a few hours experimenting with this, you will find a standard modem is too slow for this site.
News is also all over the net.
Yahoo maintains nicely categorized lists of wire stories, and is great for checking out today's business stories at a glance, for instance. The designers there manage to create a very visual site without having it take too long to download. On the local front, Newsday is once again a great place to look. This site indexes tens of thousands of 'newsgroup' or bulletin board postings. You'll find that people all over the globe are asking and answering questions in these newsgroups, and often your question is in the archives.