Hot Temperatures
High pressure along the Mid-Atlantic coast will continue to push warmer air into the region with a hot day expected tomorrow.
The main story today, however, will likely be an increase in smoky skies as a plume of wildfire smoke moves through the region.
Smoke concentrations should increase through the morning, peaking from the midday, through the afternoon, and into the early evening.
While the bulk of the smoke will be aloft, some surface smoke is likely. You should be able to smell the smoke, and some slight impacts to air quality are possible.
Air Quality Index values are expected to remain in the Level 2—Moderate (Yellow) zone, with values under 100. Only the most sensitive groups should have any noticeable impacts. However, hyper localized variations are possible, so continue to monitor the air quality if you are in a sensitive group.
The increase in smoke will filter the sunshine, likely holding temperatures a couple degrees cooler than it would be otherwise. Still, it will be warmer than yesterday with highs in the upper 70s and low 80s.
The higher concentrations of smoke will move out overnight, though there will still be smoke in the atmosphere and near the surface through Wednesday.
Temperatures should be impacted less on Wednesday with the lighter smoke concentrations and many areas will end up with their warmest day yet in 2025. Mid and upper 80s will be widespread, with the valley and urban locations seeing the highest temperatures.
A few places may even be able to hit 90 degrees.
Dewpoints will be well into the 60s as well, so it will be a muggy heat with head index values a couple degrees higher than the actual temperature.
Sunshine will mix with some scattered clouds, especially during the afternoon, but no rain is expected.
Showers and Storms
Our next weather maker will roll in on Thursday.
The morning and first half of the afternoon should be mainly dry with varying amounts of sunshine.
Later in the afternoon, scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop.
By that time, temperatures will be in the low to mid 80s with dewpoints in the mid and upper 60s. This should provide quite a bit of fuel for the thunderstorms to feed off.
However, winds aloft are not overly supportive of organizing severe thunderstorms, which should prevent a larger severe weather event.
Still, an isolated strong to severe storm is possible, with wind being the primary hazard.
Rain and thunderstorms are likely on Friday. While these will be possible at any time, it will probably not rain all day. More likely, there will be a couple waves of higher concentrations of rain and storms.
Temperatures Friday will be less hot with highs mainly in the upper 70s.
A few stray showers may linger into Saturday. Cooler air on the backside of this weather system will hold highs to around 70 degrees.
Forecast confidence is lower for Sunday, but there is a decent chance for a dry day with sun and clouds. Highs will likely be just a touch warmer than Saturday.
Another round of showers and storms will be possible late Monday and Tuesday next week, with mainly dry weather otherwise. Temperatures next week will remain seasonable with 70s and possible a day or two of 80s, mainly late in the week.
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This graphic represents an average over the entire Finger Lakes region. Localized variations should be expected.
