NWS Buffalo

Today’ Severe Weather Awareness topic is Flash Flooding. Will you be ready for sudden flash flooding? Stay #WeatherReady by enabling weather alerts on your phone. If flooding occurs while you’re outdoors, immediately get to higher ground, and NEVER enter flood waters.

A stationary frontal boundary will remain draped across the region today, with a chance of scattered showers or a thunderstorm this morning. Unsettle weather returns tonight and Saturday with widespread showers to areas south of Lake Ontario.

Today’s Severe Weather Awareness topic is Tornadoes. Supercells are not the only types of storms that develop tornadoes. Did you know that there are multiple types of tornadoes that can form? Visit noaa.gov/jetstream/thun… for more info. #WeatherReady

After another dry day today, the potential for showers will increase later Friday and continue through Saturday. Cooler temperatures are expected for the weekend.

Dry weather, light winds, and seasonable low temperatures tonight. Longer range forecast favors a cooler than normal pattern setting up toward the tail end of April into the first week of May.

To continue today’s Severe Weather Awareness topic of preparedness, it’s important to have a disaster supply kit ready in case of thunderstorms. weather.gov/safety/thunder… #WeatherReady

Today’s Severe Weather Awareness topic is preparedness. Severe weather can occur day or night. The nighttime hours are dangerous because most people are sleeping, and it can be nearly impossible to see an approaching tornado. Keep Wireless Emergency Alerts enabled on your phone!

Rain showers will end by daybreak across the western Southern Tier, and clouds will diminish from northwest to southeast throughout the day. High temperatures will rise into the 60s, with upper 50s east of Lake Ontario.

Continuing today’s Severe Weather Awareness topic of Thunderstorms, let's look into hail formation. Hail is precipitation that forms when thunderstorm updrafts carry raindrops upward into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere, and freeze into hailstones.

Today’s Severe Weather Awareness topic is Thunderstorms. Did you know that there are different types of thunderstorms? Watch this video to learn what they are:youtube.com/watch?v=NNrb0h…

It will be a cold start today, but temperatures will rise back to just below seasonal normals. Clouds will increase throughout the day, with a growing chance of light showers tonight.

Dry, but chilly tonight with low temperatures in the 20s for much of the area, with some readings in the teens across the interior higher terrain. This will be some 10 to 15 degrees below average for the date. #nywx

Continuing with today’s Severe Weather Awareness topic of Watches and Warnings. A Tornado WATCH means Be Prepared. A Tornado WARNING means Take Action! weather.gov/safety/tornado… #WeatherReady

Today’s Severe Weather Awareness topic is Watches and Warnings. Do you know the difference? A Severe Thunderstorm WATCH means Be Prepared. A Severe Thunderstorm WARNING means Take Action! weather.gov/safety/thunder… #WeatherReady

Chilly today with scattered snow showers. Highs in the 30s to low 40s. Cold tonight with lows in the 20s.

Chilly tonight with area-wide low temperatures falling below the freezing mark. Scattered snow showers will continue tonight with a coating possible; up to an inch across the higher terrain. Accumulations will be mainly confined to grassy and elevated surfaces.

Continuing with Severe Weather Awareness week, we’ll look at a timeline regarding storms. Don’t wait until the day of the storm to begin protecting yourself. If the forecast calls for severe weather, begin preparing NOW. Stay #WeatherReady weather.gov/safety/tornado

Today is the start of Severe Weather Awareness Week. Severe weather can occur anywhere. Wherever you are, be prepared! weather.gov/safety/thunder… #WeatherReady

Unsettled, significantly colder weather will continue through Monday night with rain and/or snow shower. Showers today could contain a few rumbles of thunder across western NY.

@thevor1texz22 The signature you are seeing on radar is the artifacts of the wind turbines out in that area of Wyoming County.

@NWSBUFFALO this is a possibile tornado debris signature I just found near gainesville ny can yall confirm this but there is not even a severe thunderstorm warning in this region