cny weather

Parts of New York City were hit by heavy rains and flash flooding on Friday after heavy rains moved in and continued through the afternoon. Streets and subways overflowed with water in parts of the city creating a traffic nightmare in America's largest city.

What an amazing run of dry and warm weather we've enjoyed over the last several days in Utica-Rome and the Mohawk Valley. Now, as we get set to head into the first weekend of June, prepare for some relief and some precipitation.

A cold front will cross Utica and Rome this afternoon and evening, sparking dangerous storm activity with damaging winds and large hail.

Scattered rain showers linger today with blustery winds into the afternoon and evening. Rain gradually changes to snow with some light accumulations overnight. Most of Saturday will be dry before a few rain showers move in during the evening.

Snow totals have been dropped from 8-10 inches to 2-5 inches in Central New York.

The NWS has issued a high-wind watch after a beautiful record-breaking day across Central New York. Expect stormy conditions with strong gusty winds and a few isolated and severe thunderstorms, especially northeast of NYS Thruway.

We need to make it through one more cold and blustery weekend before the warming trend begins on Monday, bringing us much warmer weather by midweek. We could see temperatures in the mid- 50's to low 60's.

In New York State, it's against the law to leave your pets unprotected in life-threatening weather conditions such as dangerously low wind chills and frigid temperatures.

A dangerously cold and blustery Arctic air mass will remain over central New York throughout the weekend, bringing the coldest temperatures and wind chills this season.

A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for Northern Oneida County. Lake effect snow is expected to develop tonight and continue through Friday. Generally, 2-4 inches of snow is expected through Friday.

A warm front will cause some showers and a chance of thunderstorms to develop tonight. Tomorrow we could see a few tornadoes with 70 MPH winds in Central New York.

A cold front moving through central New York tomorrow, 8/25/20, could bring severe thunderstorms and damaging winds late morning through mid-afternoon.