![Damaging Wind and Heavy Rain Coming To CNY](http://townsquare.media/site/42/files/2018/09/RS10788_155482741.jpg?w=630&h=419&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89&w=980&q=75)
Damaging Wind and Heavy Rain Coming To CNY
A strong cold front will move across CNY Friday and Friday night, bringing our next chance for showers, thunderstorms with damaging wind gusts over 25 mph.
A Hazardous Weather Outlook has been issued for central New York including Northern Oneida--Onondaga-Madison-Southern Oneida-Otsego-Delaware counties.
Late Friday and Friday night a strong cold front will cross the area with showers and thunderstorms. Some of the thunderstorms could have damaging wind gusts and brief heavy rain. Isolated flash flooding is possible. River flooding is not expected.
The NWS Says:
Friday briefly in the warm sector with dewpoints in the 60s
again. Highs vary from around 80 in the Finger Lakes to around 70 in the Catskills. Skies will stay mostly cloudy ecially in the southeast so heating will be weak. This will inhibit thunderstorms ahead of a strong cold front Friday night. Wind fields and forcing still strong starting Friday afternoon but the instability will be weak. With the strong winds at all levels wind shear around 45 kts. Helicity is also high with speed and directional shear at the lowest levels. Showers and thunderstorms will move into the Finger Lakes late in the afternoon.
Extended Forcast from NWS:
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