Good morning and happy Sunday! Sorry for the late text but we have a severe storm/flooding threat developing for tomorrow that should be noted :) ….>

Things should remain dry through today but an incoming storm system promises rain, thunder, lightning, and wind over the next two days. 

For today - lake effect (westerly) air flow will once again cap temps in the city to around 60F under cloudy skies. Just to our south, however, the air is HOT and HUMID. Perfect conditions for a late spring severe storm setup. 

The chance of storms arrives before dawn tomorrow, and the extensiveness of those morning storms just to our south will dictate how severe our afternoon storms will be up here. If morning storms are expansive, afternoon severity is likely to shift southward. If morning storms are isolated and further south, we could be in for a barn burner event in the afternoon.

A compounding factor is all the rain we’ve gotten in April! So far, the city has received over 200% of our normal monthly rainfall, and the models suggest another inch+ could fall tomorrow. This would push April into the Top 5 wettest on record. Streams will flood, streets will flood: BE SAFE.

Things settle down Tuesday and temps will snuggle themselves right into that perfect zone (60s) and so the combo of VERY green grass+shrubs from all this rain + sunny skies + low 60s should satisfy everyone’s definition of “spring has arrived” lol. 

Tl;dr - big storms possible tomorrow - read for all the details!

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