Kevin Shaw

Tuesday was a partly to mostly sunny, snowless day that started out mild but temperatures started to drop significantly in the afternoon and evening with significant wind chills heading towards the 0 mark. Tuesday […]

Really timely article in Live Science on pyrocumulus clouds, which occur in the vicinity of large wildfires as is happening in Southern California at this time, and also in volcanoes all over the world. Always […]

Monday was a mostly to partly cloudy, milder, snowless day that actually saw the snowpack vanish (see featured image) as temps rose into the mid 40s and mins stayed above freezing. Monday temperatures only dropped […]

Sunday was a cloudy, cold, snowless day that saw the snowpack reduce a bit under the still surprisingly powerful sun’s rays under the cloudy skies. Sunday temperatures dropped very early in the AM into the upper […]

Saturday was a glorious day, nice and wintry with cloudy, cold skies and an all day beautiful light snow (2.0″ total – average of 4 measurements on the snowboard and a 0.21″ snow water equivalent (SWE)) that only […]

On Friday we had cloudy skies (thickening and lowering cirrostratus/altostratus overcast) with no precipitation (yet) as final preparations for our overnight and during the day Saturday snow were busily completed. […]

On Thursday we had mostly cloudy skies (cirrostratus overcast) with no precipitation and gradually diminishing breezes. Temperatures were chilly all day starting out in the mid 30s in the early AM, then rising […]

On Wednesday we had mostly cloudy skies (gradually rising overcast stratocumulus and altocumulus) with no further rain, and breezy, blustery conditions at times resulting in lowering wind chills. Temperatures […]

I crashed on Tuesday evening and did not make my regular post on that day till right now. What I have here is a brief update on the important climate data and weather observations for the day but without many of […]

Monday featured a good deal of “milky” sun, filtered partially by an increasing high cloud overcast from our slowly approaching cold front. Temperatures started out frosty around the freezing mark, rising up into […]

Coming from Buffalo State College, in Buffalo NY and surrounding suburbs – You can listen to the Weather Buff online show – it is the weekly one hour show on WBNY, dedicated to all things weather between the hours […]

Sunday featured our first monthly precipitation in December, a whopping 0.04″ that fell in the early AM around 0600-0630, with the clouds moving out quickly and sun shining by 0900. Mostly sunny the rest of the […]

Saturday featured an increasingly cloudy day, a bit cooler than yesterday as a weak front approached from the west at day’s close. Temperatures started out in the upper-low 30s in the very early AM, then rose to […]

Friday started out the month of December on a mostly sunny note, with just some early AM leftover cloudiness from Thursday’s late FROPA. Temperatures started out around 40° in the early AM, then rose into the low […]

Thursday closed out the month of November on a partly cloudy note, slightly wet with a light evening shower (0.01″) associated with a passing cold front, and a cooler day. Temperatures started out around 40° in […]

Wednesday was another sunny, dry, and milder day. Temperatures started out in the upper-mid 30s in the early AM, then rose into the mid 60s in the afternoon. Dew points were in the 30s most of the day. At 0810 we […]