7 Weather 5am Update, Wednesday, September 11

FORECAST, HERE'S CHIEF METEOROLOGIST AND CASKEY. >> GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. A COMFORTABLE START YOUR DAY. WE DO HAVE A LITTLE FOG CATTARAUGUS COUNTY. HERE'S A VIEW OF HOLY AND SOME FOG TO THE VALLEYS. WELL, SOUTH OF BUFFALO, NOTHING TOO DENSE. BUT AGAIN, IT'S KIND OF TYPICAL FOR THIS TIME OF DAY AND THIS TIME OF YEAR WHERE WE SEE SOME FOG IN SOME OF THOSE VALLEYS AND WE HAVE THAT THIS MORNING, THERE'S A LIVE VIEW OF OLEANDER START YOUR DAY MONDAY. WE DID HAVE 2 MORE TORNADOES, ONE IN GRAND ISLAND, THE ONE IN PEMBROKE. THAT IS 9 TORNADOES IN WESTERN NEW SUMMER. AVERAGE IS ABOUT ONE TO 2 PER YEAR. 31 TORNADOES IN NEW YORK STATE SO FAR THIS YEAR, WHICH IS A NEW RECORD. SO WE'VE BEEN TALKING A LOT ABOUT TORNADOES THIS SEASON, PRETTY QUIET ACROSS THE AREA. WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE ANY TORNADIC ACTIVITY. WE MAY HAVE JUST A FEW CLOUDS ROLL THROUGH AS HIGH PRESSURE IS IN CONTROL AND THAT AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE IS GOING TO BE WITH US FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. 55 DEGREES WITH MAINLY CLEAR SKIES WINDS OUT OF THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 MILES PER HOUR. 53 AND NIAGARA FALLS. 53 ALSO IN JAMESTOWN. HERE'S YOUR HOURLY FORECAST FOR TODAY. >> MID-FIFTIES AT 08:00AM WITH PARTLY TO MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES, LOW 70'S BY NOONTIME NEAR 80, MOSTLY SUNNY AND PLEASANT AT THIS AFTERNOON. HERE'S THE HOUR BY HOUR FORECAST. GOING TO LET IT GO TODAY TOMORROW AND FRIDAY WHERE WE HAVE A SIMILAR FORECAST WITH SUNNY SKIES EACH DAY AND EACH DAY GETS A LITTLE BIT WARMER. WE'RE TALKING MID 80'S AS WE GET TOWARD THE END OF THE WEEK. PERHAPS YOU'RE GOING TO GET WITH SOME FRIENDS AND WATCH THE BILLS GAME RIGHT HERE ON CHANNEL 7 TOMORROW, LOW 80'S AT 05:00PM THURSDAY. A NICE WARM TAILGATE. IF YOU GET A BITE TO EAT BEFORE THE GAME COMFORTABLE AT KICKOFF, 77 DEGREES AND THEN NEAR 70 BY THE 4TH QUARTER. WE'RE STILL TRACKING FRANCINE, WHICH IS NOW A HURRICANE CATEGORY ONE STORM, WHICH WILL STRENGTHEN BECOME A CATEGORY 2 STORM LATER TODAY AND THEN MOVE ON SHORE TO THE WEST OF NEW ORLEANS. SO THIS IS EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN TO A CATEGORY 2 STORM LATER ON TODAY AND THEN MOVE OFF TOWARD THE NORTH AND KIND OF FIZZLE OUT AS IT MAKES ITS WAY UP TOWARD MEMPHIS AND ST. LOUIS AND THE MODELS, ACTUALLY, SOMEONE BRING IT BACK TOWARD THE EAST COAST. SO WE'LL BE WATCHING THAT. IT REALLY WON'T IMPACT US ANYTIME SOON AS WE HEAD TOWARD THE I-90 18 THROUGH THE 24TH TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TO STAY WELL ABOVE NORMAL. SO WAY ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES TODAY. AND THAT TREND CONTINUES AS WE GET TOWARD THE MIDDLE AND ALMOST END OF SEPTEMBER, PARTLY TO MOSTLY SUNNY TODAY, TEMPERATURES NEAR 80 DEGREES TONIGHT. OVERNIGHT LOWS NEAR 60, PARTLY CLOUDY AND COMFORTABLE TOMORROW. TEMPERATURES IN