Buffalo, NY weather
Right now 64°, mostly cloudy · today 68° / 52°, rain · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 64° · mostly cloudy · 14° warmer than this time yesterday · at Greater Buffalo, 10:50 AM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
A slight chance of rain showers after 5pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 68. Southwest wind 14 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
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Winter in Buffalo
Buffalo averages 95 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a heavy snow place. Serious winters and the equipment to match. It takes a genuinely big storm to close school.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 95 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 8 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Buffalo
The nearest radiosonde launch is Buffalo, about 8 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.
Forecasters covering the Northeast
- Jeffrey GluckIndependent meteorologist covering Northeast winter storms and severe weather. Data-driven forecasts backed by multi-model analysis. Focused on actionable timing and accumulation calls for the I-95 corridor.
- SKYler-WARNNew outlook producer (daily or weekly) Subscribe to YT @RealSkyler_edits (I'm an editor)
- ForecasterHQF
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Buffalo (api.weather.gov), updated Wed, 11:57 AM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.