An icy start to a spring warmup that stretches into next week

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) – After an icy start Tuesday, the Western New York region will finally be in for a significant spring warmup.

A period of morning freezing rain will persist through midday across the southern tier portion of WNY Tuesday where a Winter Weather Advisory is posted for Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany counties through 4 p.m.

“Temperatures will eventually warm above freezing through the southern tier this afternoon,” National Weather Service meteorologist Jon Hitchcock tells WBEN. “Up here in Buffalo, by time that rain gets here around midday or early afternoon, we’ll already be above freezing, so no freezing rain issues for the metro area today…

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