Buffalo Sets Rainfall Record for April

April of 2017 will land in the weather history books for the Buffalo area. If your backyard is flooded or at the very least has some standing water, you are definitely not alone.Just before midnight on Sunday, April 30th, the National Weather Service office in Buffalo, New York posted the following weather information statement.

A RECORD MONTHLY RAINFALL OF 6.38 IINCHES WAS SET TODAY AT BUFFALO NY FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL.  THIS BREAKS THE OLD APRIL RECORD RAINFALL OF 5.90 INCHES SET IN APRIL 1961.

 

As a matter of fact, for the date of April 30th, it was also a rainfall record!

A RECORD RAINFALL OF 1.07 INCHES WAS SET AT BUFFALO NY YESTERDAY.THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 0.84 SET IN 1909.

 

 

Severe weather has been forecast for the entire area to start the month of May as a sharp cold-front merge into Western New York late Monday. The major risk will be the damaging winds that will lead the storms our way.

Be prepared for power outages and the possibility of flash flooding.