Northeast stays warm, sunny and dry

There's still no rain in the forecast for the next several days as drought conditions worsen across the Northeast.

Transcript

00:00Now one thing we are watching some scattered thunderstorms that could move into parts of New

00:05York here especially we're watching Orchard Park where Thursday night football is happening kickoff

00:10at 8 15. Maybe we see a thunderstorm a little bit of a brief downpour possible but overall

00:17I mean we're seeing dry across the northeast right that's the whole problem we've been talking about

00:22we have a cold front that moves through as we head into tomorrow brings cooler air but

00:26not really seeing the rain and thunderstorms that we often see with a cold front and that just spells

00:32trouble for our drought conditions. We've got the latest update to the drought monitor this morning

00:36and the main areas that I'm watching are the same ones I've been watching. Northern New England, Maine

00:41we've seen an increased level of extreme drought or seeing a larger area under extreme drought and

00:48even the areas under severe drought. It is just not looking good at this point in the year. The other

00:54area we're really watching into Ohio, West Virginia kind of right on the line with Pennsylvania. That's

01:00where we see elevated levels of drought as well and when is it going to get better? Well we're looking

01:05for drought busting rainfall right and that just is not in our short-term forecast that's for sure.

01:11We're seeing the impacts right Ali was talking about the stress on the trees. It's part of the reason

01:16that we're seeing kind of an early leaf you know changing cycle here the leaves changing colors in some

01:22areas especially look at northern New England up into Maine widespread fall foliage already expect for

01:30that to just continue very early kind of peak colors probably. As we look at our overnight lows

01:36we're dropping down to the 50s the 60s not too cold though as we look into the next couple of days we are

01:43going to start to get cooler at night and we see the potential for maybe some frost but also the dryness

01:49causes problems for that maybe it just gets cold enough for you know the frost potential but we

01:54don't actually see the frost. We look at our Friday temperature wise we're kind of sticking with the

01:58status quo 60s 70s mid 80s for New York.