What was spinning in the sky on Monday?

Rochester, NY (WHAM) – Did you see anything spinning in the sky north of Rochester yesterday?

We had several photos and videos showing a low rotation in the sky north of Irondequoit, near Lake Ontario.

The video above shows a velocity scan of the atmosphere. This scan shows air moving toward or away from the Dual Pole Radar in Buffalo, NY.

Note the green and red areas moving along the lakeshore, right next to each other in the video. This was the area where a noticeable rotation in the atmosphere occurred that eventually led to yesterday’s funnel cloud reports.

The two reports of funnel clouds came in at 4:01 p.m. and 4:15 p.m., respectively.

Watch the video below to see how the sky turns from the shoreline of Lake Ontario.

On Monday afternoon, two funnel-shaped clouds descended from the thunderstorms north of Rochester.

Both reports were recorded near Lake Ontario and just north of Irondequoit.

Funnel clouds resemble tornadoes in the sky, but the air circulation does not reach the ground. The weather near funnel clouds is usually very windy, and that was likely the case yesterday, as there were a few reports of wind damage near the location of each funnel report.

Fortunately, there were no official reports of tornadoes yesterday due to the severe weather north of Rochester, although two tornadoes were reported in the Greater Buffalo area.

One tornado developed on Grand Island near Buffalo at 4:33 p.m. This tornado was rated an EF-0 tornado with maximum winds around 75 mph and a path length of 1.2 miles. The width of that tornado was 75 yards.

A second tornado formed around 8:32 p.m. near Pembrooke. This tornado was also rated an EF-0 tornado with maximum winds around 75 mph and a path length of only 0.2 miles. The width of that tornado was 50 yards wide.

Fortunately, the threat of extreme weather disappeared shortly after the second tornado cleared last night.

The coming period will see the weather be about the calmest we can expect at this time of year.

A large area of ​​high pressure will cover the Great Lakes and New England.

This will give us plenty of sunshine for the next week and also a gradual warming, with temperatures heading back into the upper 70s around Rochester by Wednesday afternoon.

Thursday and Friday we expect midsummer conditions to return to the area, with high temperatures rising back into the mid 80s with more sunshine each day.

It will also be sunny and warm in Rochester over the weekend, with high temperatures around 27 degrees.

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