First Alert Weather: Tracking milder air mid-week and a hint of winter later this week

First Alert Weather: Tracking milder air mid-week and a hint of winter later this week By News10NBC ROCHESTER, N.Y. – We started the new week off with a distinct fall look and feel to the air, with a brisk wind and lake rain showers. The next few days will be milder and drier with some sun at times. So, taking a break from the classic November weather. Tuesday starts off in the 40s with a mostly cloudy sky. High pressure briefly building in will help to clear the sky into the afternoon, with a mostly sunny sky returning. That, combined with a strong southerly wind will help push temperatures into the upper 50s to near 60 degrees. Wednesday will see increasing clouds again ahead of our next area of low pressure developing. But it’ll remain on the milder side with highs in the mid 50s. Thursday will turn wet with showers developing and becoming a steadier rain. Temperatures will slowly fall, and become chilly enough to see some wet snow mixing in with the rain in the higher elevations of the Finger Lakes and the western Southern Tier. So ski country may get an early taste of winter! Though it won’t stick around. The majority of the precipitation will pull away during the day Friday, but we’ll still be left with a mix of rain and some wet snow showers. Rochester may record the first flakes of the season Friday or into Saturday. Saturday’s flakes will likely be in the form of some lake effect, but very hit and miss, and no accumulation is expected. So bottom line – we do expect a hint of winter later this week and to start the weekend, but we aren’t looking at a snow storm at this point.