National Weather Service Forecast

Buffalo, NY Weather

7-Day Forecast
Today: 63°F / 63°F

Today's Forecast

Showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a low around 63. Southwest wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

7-Day Outlook

Sat, 8/22Thunderstorm63°63°88%
Sun, 8/23Thunderstorm71°57°79%
Mon, 8/24Rain68°58°74%

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Tue, 8/25Sunny74°59°13%
Wed, 8/26Sunny78°64°15%
Thu, 8/27Thunderstorm80°65°40%
Fri, 8/28Rain78°62°38%
Sat, 8/29Sunny78°63°10%

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Last updated Sat, Aug 22, 11:29 PM UTC

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    Northern Erie; Chautauqua; Southern Erie

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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.

See today’s snow day odds for Buffalo

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.

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