At 20:47:27, the NY TRACON feeder controller told the flight crew to "expect an ILS two two left" "altimeter two niner six niner proceed direct Deer Park." At 20:54:40, the feeder controller directed Flight 52 to make a 360° turn. At 20:56:16, the controller gave the flight a wind shear advisory of an "increase of ten knots at fifteen hundred feet and then an increase of ten knots at five hundred feet." The flight crew acknowledged the advisory. At 21:00, JFK was experiencing light drizzle and fog with mile visibility, an indefinite ceiling with obscured, and a wind of at 190°.