First Alert Weather: Tracking near record warmth and a little rain Thursday

ROCHESTER, N.Y. Late October warmth has made it s way to western New York. Temperatures pushed into the mid 60s on Wednesday, with near record warmth possible on Thursday. A southerly wind will pick up Wednesday night and into the day Thursday. This will keep our temperatures from dropping off too much, only falling into the upper 40s to near 50 Thursday morning. And we go up from there. Highs will reach the low to mid 70s by afternoon with the help of a strong southwesterly wind. The record high for Thursday s date is 76° set all the way back in 1896! We ll also see a mostly sunny sky through late afternoon, then clouds will increase ahead of our next cold front, which will break our streak of dry weather with some scattered showers returning by late evening and into the first part of the overnight. Winds will gust out of the southwest to 30mph just ahead of the front, and remain somewhat elevated into Friday. Temperatures will drop back to more seasonable levels on Fr