Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - The dreary December debut continues Sunday, with more wet weather for the Buffalo-Niagara and Western New York region.
Forecasters at the National Weather Service in Buffalo are tracking a low pressure system approaching from the Ohio Valley that will impact the second half of the weekend. "It will generate a soaking rain for much of the time through the first part of tonight," NWS forecasters say. "Most areas will pick up a half inch of rain with areas east of Lake Ontario will receive as much as an inch."
Just in time for the work week, colder air in the wake of the system will then encourage the leftover showery precipitation to mix with some snow at times tonight into Monday night. Only negligible snow accumulations are anticipated though with NO real impacts.
Colder air continues Monday and skies will be shrouded under skies with temperatures dipping some 5 to 10 degrees lower than those of Sunday, forecasters say. Nuisance rain and wet snow showers will be the order of the day east of Lake Erie where mixed precipitation will be likely. Any snow accumulations will be negligible.
The dreary weather continues through the week, but forecasters are eyeing a surface low pressure system in the far long range forecast that will rapidly deepen as it heads toward the eastern Great Lakes/Northeast. NWS forecasters say the system could possibly impact our area by the second half of next weekend. "This is a long way off," forecasters say, "But something that will need to monitored. Stay tuned."
