The upper level ridge and surface high pressure that brought us the hot and sticky weather this week has left the area as a slow moving cold front is crawling its way through.

Plenty of showers and heavy thunderstorms out ahead of the front with passing heavy downpours. Some locations have likely picked up between 2-3″ of rain already today, and there’s more to come. As of 4pm, about 3/4″ are officially in the bucket at the airport.

After this front is east of us, precipitation will come to an end as drier air quickly fills in. Looking upstream from here, dew points range from the low to upper 50s out across the upper Great Lakes indicating comfortable air. We will tap into that air-mass for the upcoming weekend.

As of right now, it doesn’t look like we’ll see the mid 90s again for a little while, but temperatures this weekend and early next week will still be above normal.

Saturday
With all of the rain we’re receiving on Friday and Friday night, there will be plenty of low level moisture around Saturday morning. Dense fog could be an issue, especially south of the Thruway. Any fog will quickly burn up leaving us with mostly sunny skies. Certainly much more comfortable on Saturday with afternoon highs in the low 80s.

Sunday
Sunday looks great. Mostly sunny again, low humidity, and temperatures in the low 80s. Perfect day for any outdoor activities.

Monday
The flow turns a little more southwesterly. We’ll see an increase in humidity, but shouldn’t be as bad as it’s been. The mercury will climb back to near 90. Remaining mostly sunny.