Warm winter continues this week, topped by 71 on Monday
Photos by Tom Rivers: A car heads north of Route 63 in fog this morning in the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge in Shelby.
SHELBY – The warm winter will continue this week, with Monday’s high of 71 the hot day of the week.
That will be followed by highs of 67 on Tuesday, 49 on Wednesday and 43 on Thursday, the National Weather Service in Buffalo said.
The week end with a high of 46 on Friday and 48 on Saturday.
The Weather Service said this year’s winter so far has been the warmest ever for the Rochester with a 34.9-degree average breaking the record from 1931-’32. It was the second-warmest December, January and February ever for Buffalo with the 34.5 average temperature nearly topping the 34.6-degree record in 1931-’32.
The first day of spring is on March 19.
It was a foggy morning on Route 63 in Shelby this morning near the wildlife refuge.
