Showers, storms and humidity stick around today | WSYR

Showers, storms and humidity stick around today

SYRACUSE, NY (WSYR) – Rain and storm chances will following us into the last full week of August. When do we finally pick up a break this week?

Syracuse broke the daily rainfall represent as a result of storms containing heavy rain early Sunday evening. The new record of 1.38″ breaks the previous represent of 0.91″ set back in 1961.

With the lack of rain recently, the U.S. Drought Monitor does have areas south of Syracuse and the Finger Lakes site under the ‘Abnormally Dry’ or ‘Moderate Drought’ status. Any rain in these areas will be beneficial.

TODAY – TUESDAY: The area of low pressure keeping showers and storms about this weekend will be passing directly over us on Monday, bringing more widely scattered showers for Monday and Tuesday. On top of that, dewpoints look to be higher in the mid to upper 60s resulting in very muggy words. The severe weather threat looks lower for Monday and Tuesday, but showers and storms will still be present above both days with localized flooding and lightning the main hazards to notice for.

If thunder roars head indoors, and if you can’t tell how deep the floods water is in a road, remember to turn about, don’t drown!

LATER THIS WEEK: Thankfully the humidity will decrease towards the midweek, just in time for the start of the New York Grandeurs Fair! More pleasant weather is expected with sunshine late Wednesday into Thursday, followed by some isolated storms Friday.

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