Following a rain-free, hot and humid Independence Day weekend, the threat of some drenching rainfall and gusty storms looms across the Buffalo-Niagara region Monday, National Weather Service forecasters say.
Widespread showers and t-storms will develop ahead of a cold front Monday. Some of these storms could produce strong to damaging winds, and locally heavy rainfall leading to the possibility of flash flooding.
Another hot and humid day today, especially across portions of the Genesee Valley and Finger Lakes where it will feel like 95° to 100°. Showers and thunderstorms arrive later today with the potential for gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall, mainly inland from the Great Lakes. pic.twitter.com/dMhjdfg3Iv
— NWS Buffalo (@NWSBUFFALO) July 7, 2025
The two periods of time of greatest concern with the frontal passage are, first, during the late morning/early afternoon, and then again late in the day…