934 FXUS61 KBUF 081732 AFDBUFArea Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Buffalo NY 132 PM EDT Mon Sep 8 2025
.SYNOPSIS... Fair dry weather with a day to day warming trend through midweek. A weakening front moves through Wednesday night into Thursday, with a slight cooler temperatures for Friday.
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.NEAR TERM /THROUGH TUESDAY/... A mix of sun and diurnally driven cu will grace our skies this afternoon. With 850T`s of +4C-+7C aloft, this should translate in MaxT`s in the 60s across the region.
Sfc high pressure exits slowly off towards New England tonight. Despite the airmass moderating a bit, a good radiational cooling setup should cause temps across the interior to fall back into the 30s in spots. Frost Advisory remains in place for Lewis Co., but have issued additional frost advisories for Cattaraugus and Allegheny Co., where lows will also dip back in the 30s. Elsewhere, a range of 40s will found.
Dry fair weather expected Tuesday, with temperatures continuing to moderate. Highs will mainly be found in the 70s
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.SHORT TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/... Surface-based ridging and dry air will remain draped across the spine of the northern Appalachians through Wednesday...while keeping tranquil weather and mainly clear skies in place. Meanwhile continued gradual warming of our airmass will allow highs to range from the lower 70s across the higher terrain to the mid 70s elsewhere on Wednesday...with a few of our normal warm spots reaching the upper 70s.
Brief/modest re-amplification of upper level troughing across eastern Canada and the Great Lakes will then push a weak cold front across our area between later Wednesday night and Thursday...however this front will be so starved for moisture and upper support that it will primarily be marked by a shift from light southwesterly to northerly winds. Following the frontal passage...another sprawling area of Canadian high pressure will then settle from James Bay to southwestern Quebec Thursday and Thursday night. This will keep fair dry weather intact across our region...along with nearly identical temps to the preceding 24 hours given the lack of any real airmass change immediately behind the front.
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.LONG TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... The aforementioned area of high pressure will continue to slowly drift east from Quebec to the Canadian Maritimes Friday and Saturday...with attendant dry air and subsidence keeping dry weather across our region through Saturday. Expect a slight reduction in high temps for Friday given some subtle cooling aloft...with warm advection on the backside of the high then sending readings back up into the upper 70s across most of our lower elevations Saturday.
Later in the weekend and early next week the guidance suite continues to indicate re-amplifying large-scale troughing across eastern Canada and the Great Lakes/Northeastern States. This being said...quite a bit of spread persists with respect to its strength and timing...with some of the stronger deterministic model runs over the past couple days continuing to suggest the potential for an embedded vigorous closed low to drop somewhere across the central/eastern Great Lakes Sunday into Monday.
While the increased troughing should generally bring the chance of at least some showers back into our region between Sunday and Monday...for now have continued to confine PoPs to the slight chance/low chance (20-30%) range given the continued uncertainty (low forecast confidence) in how this trough/any embedded closed lows will evolve. As for temps...confidence is higher that the increasing troughing aloft should result in these pulling back some...with daytime highs mostly back in the upper 60s to lower 70s by Monday.
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.AVIATION /18Z MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/... Cu field will dissipate this evening, but VFR will persist at all terminals.
VFR tonight, patchy valley fog will be possible across the S. Tier and Lewis Co. Low confidence in this impacting KJHW.
Outlook...
Tuesday through SATURDAY...VFR.
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.MARINE... Light chop will be found on area lakes today. High pressure will maintain light winds and minimal waves through Wednesday. Some modest chop may develop Thursday, when north to northeast winds elevate some in the wake of weak cold frontal passage. High pressure builds south and overhead Friday, with light winds and minimal wave action.
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.BUF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NY...Frost Advisory from 2 AM to 8 AM EDT Tuesday for NYZ008-020- 021. MARINE...None.
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