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Much-Needed Rainfall Headed To Region Amid Ongoing High Wildfire Risk: Here's Timing Much-Needed Rainfall Headed To Region Amid Ongoing High Wildfire Risk: Here's Timing
Much-Needed Rainfall Headed To Region Amid Ongoing High Wildfire Risk: Here's Timing As the risk for brush fires remains high throughout the region, a rare round of precipitation could help improve conditions. Rainfall is expected to arrive Sunday afternoon, Nov. 10, and continue through Sunday night before wrapping up around daybreak on Veterans Day on Monday, Nov. 11. (See the first image above.) "The combination of dry brush, fallen leaves, warm days and windy episodes have created ideal brush fire weather conditions," according to AccuWeather. There are likely to be more wildfires in parts of the Northeast during the day on Sunday, with a high risk in the broad ar…

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by Joe Lombardi
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2 Tornadoes Confirmed In NY This Week: Here's When, Where 2 Tornadoes Confirmed In NY This Week: Here's When, Where
2 Tornadoes Confirmed In NY This Week: Here's When, Where A pair of new tornadoes have been confirmed in New York this week. Both occurred upstate on Wednesday, July 24, and they come after 10 twisters hit central and northern New York last week. In Oswego County, the first tornado on Wednesday touched down just before 3:30 p.m. in the town of Orwell, about 40 miles north of Syracuse. It left a short, coherent path of broken tree limbs extended down an east-west path and had peak winds of 85 miles per hour, ranking it as an EF-0 tornado, the weakest of six levels on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, according to the National Weather Service. The o…

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by Joe Lombardi