Western/Central NY gets a line of Thunderstorms

A line of thunderstorms, with embedded severe storms, moved across western and central NYS during the late afternoon and early evening hours last night.

04/26/2008


The severe storms passed over parts of Monroe, Wayne, Oswego, and Jefferson counties, and produced several reports of wind and hail.

The storms died out shortly after passing through central NY, leaving a line a showers that gave the eastern half of NY some needed rain. Here in Albany, we received 0.05 inches.

Another system is on its way, but it is looking like heavy rain only. Where's our storms???

We Have a Severe Thunderstorm!

Binghamton, NY issued this little warning for Cayuga, Onondaga, and Seneca counties.

It's not much, but it was nice to see a little action in NYS today. We're looking at a couple of storm systems to be coming our way in the next week, so we might be getting our first footage for 2008 very soon.

UPDATE:
Got some data for the storms:

04/23/2008

Severe Wx Blog

Hi everyone,

I'm a friend and classmate of Mark Ellinwood's, and I'm also an Atmospheric Sciences B.S. student at the University at Albany. I'm from Staten Island, and am the NYC component to our NYS Severe Weather Blog. Most of my blogging will chronicle events that take place in the NYC area, but I will also add in whatever I can from Albany.

Weather is pretty much my life, and has been for as long as I can remember. Severe weather is my favorite. Last summer Mark, myself, and other classmates spent a good part of the summer forecasting and "chasing" severe weather in the Capital Region. In time i will provide links to photos I took of the storms we got in Albany (mostly wicked cloud pictures), as well as other types of weather and various atmospheric phenomena.

More updates will follow very soon.

The Dry Spell Continues...

Severe weather got as close as southern Pennsylvania yesterday, but the severe weather is eluding NYS as we enter week two of the dry spell. Don't get me wrong, this is beautiful weather, but a few thunderstorms would be nice.

If it doesn't rain this week, we might get to talk about drought conditions (though I highly doubt NYS will have a severe drought in this dry period).

The dry weather is in high contrast with last month. In March 2008, much of NYS observed much wetter-than-normal conditions, with near-average temperatures.

Might as well enjoy the sunny and seasonably warm weather while it's here. This streak of much warmer than average temperatures will probably put NYS near the record high average temperature for April.

NYS Severe Weather Blog

Welcome to the Severe Weather Blog for New York State. I will be bringing you all sorts of data pertaining to all types of severe weather occurrences in NYS, starting... Now.

I am currently living in Albany, NY, and I am attending SUNY Albany for my Atmospheric Science degree. I love severe weather (thunderstorms and lightning in particular), so I will try to collect and provide as much data on these events as possible.

I have provided some links that I use for severe weather, as well as a couple of photo galleries, which highlight all of the NYS severe weather I witnessed last Spring and Summer. Currently, all severe weather photos are of thunderstorms and lightning and storm clouds, but fear not, as I will start to collect severe weather photos of all types. I have not made an album dedicated to my severe weather pictures as of yet, but I do have some photos up at the AMS Albany Chapter web site (via Photobucket) that are currently linked.

Having said all this, I know both you and I will find this site to be a handy resource for NYS Severe Weather.

- Mark Ellinwood