First Alert Weather: Tracking a cloudy and cool weekend with rain and snow showers

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Mark it down. We officially recorded our first flakes of the season on Friday the 13th. This is a few weeks behind the average date for our first flakes. We’re also now behind the date for our average for measurable snow (a tenth of an inch or more) by a few days, and we likely won’t see that this weekend. If we don’t get measurable snow this weekend, we won’t see another chance for at least another week, as much quieter and milder weather settles in next week.

The Details

The weekend will be cloudy and chilly with scattered rain and wet snow showers. Saturday will be the more unsettled weekend day with a better chance at off and on mixed showers. The closer you are to the lake, the better the chance of rain vs. snow showers. Meanwhile, the Finger Lakes region has a better chance of seeing more wet snow showers. The higher elevations of the Finger Lakes may pick up another coating to an inch of accumulation by the time the precipitation winds down on Sunday. Outside of that, expect no accumulating snow for the region. Temperatures both Saturday and Sunday will hold in the upper 30s and lower 40s, about 10 degrees cooler than average.

A big area of high pressure begins to move in by Monday of next week, which will shut down any lake effect rain and snow showers, and begin to clear our sky out. Monday starts off cloudy, but we’ll see nice clearing by afternoon and evening. Meanwhile, that high meanders overhead most of next week, keeping us dry with a partly cloudy to mostly sunny sky. Temperatures will rebound back into the 50s, even flirting with 60 degrees by the end of next week.