Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN/AccuWeather) - You can thank the jet stream for delivering a weekend that will feel more like fall than late July and early August.
After continual waves of heat, humidity and bouts with severe thunderstorms since the July 4th holiday weekend, Western New York is in store for a cooldown that will feature temperatures barely hitting 70 degrees.
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The changing weather setup unfolding is being brought on by a southward dip in the jet stream in east-central Canada, and the jet stream will plunge farther south into the eastern half of the nation through next week, AccuWeather Lead Long-Range Meteorologist Paul Pastelok explained.
"The setup will bring below-average temperatures over a broad swath of the Eastern states in northern areas into this weekend and expanding southward next week," Pastelok said.
Around the start of August, temperatures are typically just past the peak of their highest levels of the entire summer. The middle of July, right in the heart of the dog days of summer, is typically when highs reach their peak. Normal highs in late July and early August range from the upper 70s F over the northern Great Lakes and northern New England to the middle 80s around the Ohio River, near 90 around the Chesapeake Bay and the lower 90s over the interior Southeast and the middle to upper 90s over the southern Plains.
