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FXUS61 KBUF 212340
AFDBUF
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
740 PM EDT THU AUG 21 2025
SYNOPSIS
CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY BREAK UP FROM NORTH TO SOUTH ACROSS
AREAS SOUTH OF LAKE ONTARIO THROUGH THIS EVENING. OTHERWISE, HIGH
PRESSURE WILL BRING FAIR WEATHER FRIDAY INTO THE START THE WEEKEND,
WITH A COLD FRONT BRINGING THE RETURN OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY. MUCH COOLER AIR WILL ARRIVE TO START THE
NEW WORK WEEK IN THE WAKE OF THE COLD FRONT WITH SCATTERED RAIN
SHOWERS AND PERIODS OF LAKE EFFECT RAIN SHOWERS.
NEAR TERM /THROUGH FRIDAY/
LOW CLOUD DECK CONTINUING TO SLOWLY CLEAR FROM THE NORTH. THE HIGHER
TERRAIN OF THE WESTERN SOUTHERN TIER WILL BE THE LAST TO CLEAR,
LIKELY BY MIDNIGHT. OTHER THAN MAINLY RIVER VALLEY FOG ACROSS THE
SOUTHERN TIER LATER TONIGHT INTO THE FIRST PART OF FRIDAY MORNING,
HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING INTO OUR REGION WILL YIELD MAINLY CLEAR
SKIES TONIGHT AND MAINLY SUNNY SKIES FRIDAY. WITH CLEARING SKIES
AND LIGHT WINDS TONIGHT, UNDERCUT GUIDANCE A BIT FOR LOW
TEMPERATURES, WITH LOW TO MID 50S FOR MOST AREAS AND UPPER 40S
FOR SOME OF THE HIGHER TERRAIN. AFTER A COOL START TO THE DAY,
GOOD DIURNAL MIXING WILL ALLOW A WARMING AIRMASS ALOFT TO MIX
DOWN DURING THE AFTERNOON BOOSTING HIGHS BACK INTO THE UPPER 70S
AND LOWER 80S, HOWEVER HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL GENERALLY REMAIN
COMFORTABLE.
SHORT TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT/
FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL DRIFT OUT
ACROSS NEW ENGLAND AND INTO THE WESTERN ATLANTIC...WHILE A DEEPENING
UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND ITS ATTENDANT SURFACE LOW MAKE THEIR WAY FROM
NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO TO NEAR JAMES BAY...WHILE BECOMING INCREASINGLY
VERTICALLY STACKED OVER TIME. OUT AHEAD OF THIS...BROAD UPPER-LEVEL
RIDGING WILL AMPLIFY OVER OUR REGION FRIDAY NIGHT...BEFORE SLOWLY
DRIFTING EAST TO NEW ENGLAND SATURDAY. THIS WILL RESULT IN FAIR DRY
WEATHER PREVAILING THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT AND LIKELY FOR MOST OF
SATURDAY...WITH SOME ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED CONVECTION
BECOMING POSSIBLE ACROSS WNY LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON/EARLY SATURDAY
EVENING WITH DIURNAL HEATING OF OUR GRADUALLY WARMING AND MOISTENING
AIRMASS. OTHERWISE TEMPERATURES AND HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL REMAIN
COMFORTABLE FRIDAY NIGHT...BEFORE GIVING WAY TO HIGHS IN THE LOWER
TO MID 80S AND MODERATE HUMIDITY (TD'S CLIMBING INTO THE LOWER-MID
60S) DURING SATURDAY.
SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY THE BROAD...VERTICALLY-STACKED LOW WILL
SLOWLY MEANDER AROUND THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF JAMES BAY...WHILE
SLOWLY PIVOTING ITS TRAILING COLD FRONT AND LEADING PREFRONTAL
TROUGH EASTWARD AND EVENTUALLY ACROSS OUR REGION. AS THESE FEATURES
INTERACT WITH AND LIFT OUR ANTECEDENT WARM AND MODERATELY HUMID
AIRMASS...THESE WILL HELP TO GENERATE SOME SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. CURRENT MULTIMODEL CONSENSUS SUGGESTS THAT
THE COVERAGE OF THESE WILL PEAK ACROSS FAR WESTERN NEW YORK SATURDAY
NIGHT AND ACROSS OUR EASTERN ZONES BETWEEN LATER SATURDAY NIGHT AND
SUNDAY...WITH THE OVERALL TIMING OF THESE A BIT FASTER THAN SEEN AT
THIS TIME YESTERDAY. THE ABOVE SAID...IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT SOME
DIFFERENCES STILL PERSIST WITH RESPECT TO THE AMOUNT OF WAVINESS
THAT DEVELOPS ALONG THE COLD FRONT...AND CONSEQUENTLY ITS EVENTUAL
TIMING. THE SLOWER THAT THE FRONT PUSHES THROUGH OUR AREA...THE
LARGER THE WINDOW FOR DIURNAL DESTABILIZATION WILL BE ON SUNDAY...
AND IF THIS IS LARGE ENOUGH THERE COULD STILL BE AT LEAST SOME RISK
FOR A FEW STRONGER TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS GIVEN THE PRESENCE OF
35-45 KNOTS OF DEEP-LAYER ENVIRONMENTAL SHEAR. AT THIS JUNCTURE...
THE BEST CHANCES OF SUCH APPEAR TO LIE ACROSS OUR FAR EASTERN
ZONES...HOWEVER THIS WILL AGAIN DEPEND UPON THE EVENTUAL TIMING OF
THE FRONT.
SUNDAY NIGHT...GENERAL SUBSIDENCE IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT AND DRY
SLOTTING ALOFT SHOULD BRING ABOUT A DIMINISHING TREND TO ANY
SHOWERS/STORMS ACROSS OUR FAR EASTERN ZONES...WITH A FEW SPOTTY LAKE
EFFECT SHOWERS THEN BECOMING POSSIBLE DOWNWIND OF THE LAKES
OVERNIGHT AS PROGRESSIVELY COOLER AIR WORKS IN ALOFT. SPEAKING OF
WHICH...THE LATTER WILL ALSO ALLOW OVERNIGHT LOWS TO DROP BACK TO
THE MID TO UPPER 50S IN MOST AREAS...WITH SOME LOWER 50S ACROSS THE
HIGHER TERRAIN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER/NORTH COUNTRY.
LONG TERM /MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/
ANOMALOUSLY DEEP...FULL-LATITUDE UPPER LEVEL TROUGHING WILL
CONSOLIDATE ITS GRIP ACROSS EASTERN NORTH AMERICA ON MONDAY AS
ANOTHER VIGOROUS SHORTWAVE ROUNDS ITS BASE...THEN WILL REMAIN IN
PLACE THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...BEFORE GRADUALLY WEAKENING AND
BROADENING LATER WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY. THIS FEATURE WILL DELIVER
A SHOT OF THE COOLEST AIR WE'VE SEEN IN A WHILE (850 MB TEMPS
FALLING INTO THE MIDDLE SINGLE DIGITS ABOVE ZERO) TUESDAY AND
WEDNESDAY. THIS WILL NOT ONLY RESULT IN TEMPERATURES FALLING TO
SOLIDLY BELOW NORMAL LEVELS DURING THE FIRST HALF OF NEXT WEEK...BUT
WILL ALSO TRANSLATE INTO UNSETTLED CONDITIONS THROUGH AT LEAST
TUESDAY NIGHT...WITH SOME LAKE EFFECT RAIN SHOWERS DOWNWIND OF THE
LAKES EACH NIGHT/MORNING...AND MORE GENERAL DIURNALLY-DRIVEN
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS FOLLOWING EACH
AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING.
WITH BLENDED GUIDANCE AGAIN UNABLE TO ADEQUATELY RESOLVE THE LAKE
EFFECT SHOWER POTENTIAL THIS FAR OUT IN ADVANCE...HAVE MANUALLY
INSERTED SOME HIGHER POPS TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY
MORNING (50% CHANCE) AND AGAIN TUESDAY NIGHT/WEDNESDAY (30%-20%
CHANCES RESPECTIVELY). BY LATER WEDNESDAY...INCREASING LOW-LEVEL
RIDGING AND THE ONSET OF GRADUAL WARMING ALOFT SHOULD BRING ABOUT A
TREND TOWARD DRIER WEATHER...WITH DRY CONDITIONS AND HIGHS LARGELY
BACK IN THE 70S EXPECTED ON THURSDAY.
AVIATION /00Z FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/
SKIES HAVE CLEARED ACROSS THE NORTH COUNTRY WITH VFR CONDITIONS IN
AND AROUND KART, HOWEVER A PLETHORA OF LOW CLOUDS REMAIN ACROSS AREA
TERMINALS SOUTH OF LAKE ONTARIO WITH MAINLY MVFR CIGS BEING OBSERVED
AND SOME IFR CIGS ACROSS THE INTERIOR SOUTHERN TIER, EAST OF KJHW.
DRIER AIR WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY WORK SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE
REMAINDER OF THE DAY, WITH MVFR GRADUALLY BECOMING VFR FROM NORTH TO
SOUTH THROUGH THE AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS FOR AREAS
SOUTH OF LAKE ONTARIO.
ASIDE FROM MAINLY SOUTHERN TIER VALLEY FOG LATE TONIGHT INTO THE
START OF FRIDAY MORNING (POSSIBLY IMPACTING KJHW), EXPECT WIDESPREAD
VFR CONDITIONS AND LIGHT WINDS OVERNIGHT AND FRIDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE
BUILDS ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTHCENTRAL NY.
OUTLOOK...
FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...VFR.
SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...MVFR/VFR. RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY WITH A
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
MONDAY AND TUESDAY...MAINLY VFR WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
EMBEDDED THUNDER AFTERNOONS/EARLY EVENINGS. MVFR IN LAKE EFFECT RAIN
SHOWERS OVERNIGHTS INTO THE MORNINGS DOWNWIND OF THE LAKES.
MARINE
ELEVATED NORTHEASTERLIES CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY
CONDITIONS ACROSS EASTERN LAKE ERIE AND WESTERN LAKE ONTARIO. THESE
WINDS WILL SLOWLY COME DOWN THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF TODAY INTO THIS
EVENING AS A WEAK AREA OF SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS ACROSS THE
LAKES. WEAK GRADIENT FLOW FRIDAY BECOMES SOUTHERLY SATURDAY, THEN
INCREASES SOME SATURDAY NIGHT AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL CROSS
THE LAKES LATE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY.
BUF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
NY...NONE.
MARINE...NONE.
SYNOPSIS...JM/THOMAS/TMA
NEAR TERM...JM/TMA
SHORT TERM...JJR
LONG TERM...JJR
AVIATION...JM/TMA
MARINE...JM/THOMAS/TMA
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