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First Alert Weather: Tracking some rain and wind Friday, then chillier air to start the weekend
Headline from WHEC Rochester
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – We’re tracking an unsettled end to the work week as an area of low pressure passes overhead on Friday. Temperatures will initially fall into the upper 40s Thursday night, but climb through the 50s and into the low 60s by early Friday morning.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Cloudy and quiet weather to start the new week on this Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Heavier clouds in the morning with patchy fog and a little drizzle. Monday afternoon will be mostly cloudy and mainly dry with temperatures warming nicely into the upper 60s and low 70s.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – We’re going to see a little bit of everything this week – from temperatures near 80 to perhaps our first snowflakes. First the warmth: a warm front lifted through the area, and will stall our just to our north Monday night and into Tuesday.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Grab the umbrella as you head out Tuesday morning with a round of showers and possible thunder moving through the region. Timing for rain will be roughly 7AM to 10AM. After the showers clear we will see some sunshine and soaring temps into the afternoon with a gusty breeze.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – October 13th was “toasty Tuesday” in Rochester and the Finger Lakes, as temperatures reached into the 80s. We officially hit 82° at the Rochester Airport, which was just 1 degree shy of tying the record high of 83°.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Yesterday felt like summer as we nearly tied the temperature record for the day… Today and tomorrow will feel like fall… Then Friday through Saturday we’re tracking a strong low pressure system which will bring rain, wind, and possibly our first snowflakes of the season, making it …
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – October weather has returned to western New York. Temperatures were about 20 degrees cooler on Wednesday than the near record warmth we had the day before. And those seasonably cool temperatures will stick around through the rest of the week.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Some big changes are in our weather forecast over the next three days… But we remain Green on the Threat Tracker as no BIG impacts are expected. Just nasty weather at times. Starting off the morning with some stubborn cloud cover over WNY due to a temperature inversion and low leve…
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – We’re tracking an unsettled end to the work week as an area of low pressure passes overhead on Friday. Temperatures will initially fall into the upper 40s Thursday night, but climb through the 50s and into the low 60s by early Friday morning.
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