First Alert Weather: Yellow Alert issued for some local lake snow Wednesday evening
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Yellow Alert remains up through 8 p.m. for some local lake effect snow that may impact the roads for a few hours this evening.
Temperatures are dropping off, and this may also produce some icy spots on roads as we fall through the 20s. Any lake effect snow should be fairly minor, with most areas seeing less than one inch of new snow Wednesday evening, but it may be just enough to slow down the commute in some spots, especially in the Finger Lakes.
Most of the lake snow and the Yellow Alert will end Wednesday night, as our weather quiets down. Temperatures will drop into the teens and we’ll see a partially clearing sky. This will set us up for a chilly start to Thursday, but with calm weather, aside from some lake flakes in Wayne County. We’ll see intervals of clouds and sun on Thursday, then clouds thicken up again ahead of our next system.
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Warmer air will be drawn into western New York, with temperatures actually climbing through the 20s into the 30s by Friday morning. In fact, it’ll be mild enough on Friday for some rain showers to fall before transitioning back over to some wet snow late. We could see a few inches of slushy wet snow by Friday night.
The weekend starts off chilly with temperatures in the teens and low 20s on Saturday, but with some sun. Sunday will see increasing clouds and a few rain or wet snow showers later in the day. Our weather may turn more active next week, with a boundary overhead and a few waves of low pressure riding along that front, but details are fuzzy at this point.
We’ll update the forecast as it becomes more clear.