Very Nice Today, but the Weekend...
Written by John DiPasquale:
High & dry today thanks to high pressure just off to the north. It will be breezy & pleasant on this Friday, but the weather will go down hill later tonight into Saturday with some showers & a few storms likely.
The culprit of the wet weather we see later tonight & Saturday will be a storm & it's warm & cold front. First, the warm front will be pushed through during the day Saturday with increasingly warm & humid air building in. A cold front will then move through Saturday night with a few more showers & storms. Behind the cold front, a much cooler & drier air mass will blow in on gusty northwest winds to round out the weekend with some sun. With that being said, Sunday will most likely be the pick day of the weekend. Make your outdoor plans accordingly. Highs tomorrow will be between 75 & 80, while 65 to 70 will be all we can muster on Sunday.
Right now next week through at least Wednesday looks fantastic! Some sun & temperatures warming through the 70s & into the low 80s by Wednesday! Enjoy WNY!
Hi John. I stumbled on this article about a very unusual weather phenomenon that occurred in Wichita, KS a couple days ago. A very strange "heat burst" occurred in the middle of the night. Here's the article about what happened:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=ict&storyid=69444&source=0
Thanks for sharing, summerfan
ReplyDeleteNo problem. I have never heard of anything like a "heat burst". I'm pretty sure if the temperature in Rochester rose out of nowhere to 102 degrees in the middle of the night we'd all be freaking out. Just another amazing thing about weather.
ReplyDeleteHey Scott, John or Stacey....would you be able to elaborate on what might have caused something like this?
Hey Scott thursday you and all the other weather forecasters told the veiwing public we were going to have heavy showers and thunder Funny thing was it never happened,didn't even rain here.And once again you and others in the local weather group forecast rain friday night with widespread showers on saturday.Once again you were wrong.So my question to you and others is how can we depend on the weather forecast when it seems to be so wrong all the time?
ReplyDeletehey don't put them on the spot weather is very unpredictable and just because it didn't rain in your area doesn't mean it didn't rain at all it could of rained somewhere else!
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ReplyDeleteI think saying it's wrong "all the time" is a bit of an overstatement. Unfortunately, there is NO magic formula when forecasting exactly what the weather is going to do. It's not like clicking lego blocks together, the climate is always in a fluid motion. No meteorologist will ever tell you that forecasting weather is an exact science. Although we have come a long way in forecasting weather days in advance, weather never ceases to humble us in its UN-predictability. Do you think the people of Joplin, Missouri were told the day before that their city would be virtually wiped out? Nope. Does that mean that the forecasters failed Joplin, MO, or does it mean that weather is an amazing beast that can't be fully predicted???
And one more thing, Anonymous, why don't you just follow the radar loops yourself? We're in the "convective" season now, meaning that storms pop up and fizzle out over small areas. It's IMPOSSIBLE to predict where a storm will pop up and where it won't. Henrietta may get slammed by a thunderstorm, while folks in Brighton just see the dark clouds to the south but stay completely dry. Science has not advanced enough to be able to pin point in advance EXACTLY where an individual storm "cell" will pop up - and it probably never will. Channel 8 / Fox has an excellent weather board with radar tools to look at. Look at them.
ReplyDeleteI've been watching the radar light up since just after noon. While the strongest convection (severe storms in the Finger Lakes) stayed south and east of the immediate Rochester area, many folks in our viewing area did (and still are) seeing the scattered showers and storms that were in the forecast. If a pop-up storm didn't "pop" over your location, great! Unless of course you needed the rain.
ReplyDeleteStacey