7 Weather 5am Update, Tuesday, September 10

METEOROLOGIST AARON CASKEY. >> ALL RIGHT. WELL, WE SAID YESTERDAY MORNING THE THREAT WAS THERE FOR SEVERE WEATHER YESTERDAY AFTERNOON IN FULL WHAT AN ACTIVE AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. WE HAD ON MONDAY FROM AROUND 4.35. GRAND ISLAND HAD A LOT OF TREES DOWN AND A LOT OF POWER LINES DOWN. SURVEY TEAM GOING OUT GRAND ISLAND LATER TODAY TO SEE IF THERE WAS A TORNADO THAT DID TOUCH DOWN REPORTS OF A LOT OF FUNNEL CLOUDS YESTERDAY. RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO WARNING FROM 8.30, TO 09:00PM FOR GENESEE AND WYOMING COUNTIES YESTERDAY AT 8.30, FOR TREE DAMAGE BRANCHES DOWN AND NORTH PEMBROKE. ANOTHER SURVEY TEAM FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS GOING OUT TODAY TO CHECK ON THAT DAMAGE PATTERN TO SEE IF A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN THERE AS WELL. SO YESTERDAY WITH THE 2 POSSIBLE TORNADOES, LOOK AT ALL THE LIGHTING OF THE STORM IN US THAT ROLLED THROUGH GRAND ISLAND AROUND 4.30 AND THEN WE HAD A LULL ABOUT 8 O'CLOCK THINGS STARTED TO GET ACTIVE AGAIN. WE SAW A LOT OF LIGHTNING AND THEN HERE'S THAT NEXT SYSTEM THAT ROLLED THROUGH WESTERN PARTS OF GENESEE COUNTY POSSIBLY BROUGHT ANOTHER TORNADO TO THE AREA. SO COULD HAVE HAD TO YESTERDAY. WE'LL LET YOU KNOW LATER TODAY. ONCE THE WEATHER SERVICE GOES OUT TO CONFIRM IF THOSE TO TOUCH DOWN, CHECKING OUT THE RADAR RIGHT NOW, ALL IS QUIET RADAR AND SATELLITE. SOME LOW CLOUD COVER ACROSS THE REGION. WE DO HAVE A FAIR AMOUNT OF FOG, JAMESTOWN, VISIBILITY, 0 NIAGARA FALLS, VISIBILITY LESS THAN A QUARTER OF A MILE AROUND A QUARTER OF A MILE LEWISTON LESS THAN THAT. AND CHECK IT OUT RIGHT NOW IN THE ONE 90 AT EXIT 19, THERE'S A VIEW OF THE WHITE HAVEN ROAD AND GRAND ISLAND WHERE FOG IS QUITE DENSE. SO JUST HEADS UP THIS MORNING, YOU'LL FIND AREAS WHERE THAT FOG IS LOCALLY DENSE. YOU'LL NEED SOME EXTRA TIME FOR YOUR MORNING COMMUTE IN SOME SPOTS. 57 DEGREES HERE IN BUFFALO. 55 IN NIAGARA FALLS. 54 IN JAMESTOWN, HOURLY FORECAST FOR TODAY. FOG THIS MORNING. WE'RE IN THE 50'S SUNSHINE BY NOONTIME UPPER 60'S. LOW 70'S THIS AFTERNOON. HOUR BY HOUR FORECAST. JUST SOME HIGH THIN CIRRUS CLOUDS ROLLING THROUGH LATER TODAY. TOMORROW. GOOD DEAL. SUNSHINE THURSDAY LOOKS GREAT AS WELL. IF YOU HAVE ANY VIEWING PARTIES TO GO TO ON THURSDAY FOR THE GAME, THE WEATHER LOOKS JUST ABOUT PERFECT LOW 80'S AT 5 O'CLOCK WITH SUNSHINE, COMFORTABLE DURING THE GAME WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 70'S AT KICKOFF. WE DO HAVE A TROPICAL STORM FRANCINE THAT'S IN THE WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO FORECAST TO BECOME A HURRICANE, A CARROT CATEGORY 2 STORM MOVING ONSHORE WEDNESDAY, JUST THE WEST OF NEW ORLEANS. THEN THE SYSTEM MOVES NORTHWARD TOWARD THE GREAT LAKES AS WE GET INTO THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. AND THIS COULD THROW SOME MORE CLOUDS TOWARD THE AREA AS WE GET INTO SUNDAY. YOUR FORECAST FOR TODAY, SOME DENSE MORNING FOG. OTHERWISE MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A HIGH OF 73 DEGREES TONIGHT, OVERNIGHT LOWS, THE MID 50'S PARTLY CLOUDY AND COMFORTABLE TOMORROW.