Get the coats and shovels out. Winter may be making an early arrival in Central New York with cold temperatures and plowable snow expected next month. And if that's not bad enough, the winter weather is expected to hang around a little longer than normal too.
The good news is we should have a typical winter in Central New York. The bad news is, the snowstorms may come all at once in what the Farmers' Almanac is calling a 'Winter Whopper.'
Don't miss what NASA calls the 'best meteor shower of the year.' The Perseids will light up the Central New York sky in July and August but you'll want to catch it at its peak.
On Wednesday, June 30, the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm watch reporting that hail, lightening, and wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour. The first storm hit the area around 1:10PM.