{"id":330158,"date":"2026-08-26T13:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330158\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:48:22","slug":"beautiful-wednesday-for-the-great-nys-fair-but-severe-storms-possible-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330158\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Wednesday for the Great NYS Fair, but severe storms possible Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re looking ahead to a beautiful first day of The Great New York State Fair with plenty of sunshine today and high temperatures reaching into the low 80s! <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"New York State Fair forecast\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/49e65635-d56a-4dc7-9102-952994e7bf2e-nyst826.PNG\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>New York State Fair forecast<\/p>\n<p>The beautiful weather holds true for the entire region of central New York as no one will see any chances for rain showers today. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"High and low temperatures\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"364\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bf034b8a-b0d7-428b-b2d6-8faef52dbf44-highlow826.PNG\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>High and low temperatures<\/p>\n<p>The low-pressure system developing across the northern Great Lakes will track eastward over the next 36 hours and bring the northeast our next chance of precipitation Thursday. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The big picture\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/43d7684c-52a1-4ead-a902-c08b4b0b2b34-BIGPIC826.PNG\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By early afternoon, showers and thunderstorms will likely be developing with the chance of a few strong to severe embedded thunderstorms possible. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"2PM Thursday Futurecast\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"364\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/37bea4c3-44a4-47f5-bad2-7ebacb08dd7e-THUR2P.PNG\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The further east these storms slide, the stronger they&#8217;ll get. Slight timing uncertainty exists with the exact departure of the thunderstorm threat so make sure to stay weather aware through the PM hours Thursday. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"6PM Thursday futurecast\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bb68d1e1-615d-420e-886e-060f4bce7a43-FUTURE6PTHU.PNG\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Storm Prediction Center has draped a wide swath of CNY under the slight risk for severe storms which is a level 2 out of 5.  The biggest threats are for damaging winds and large hail, but an isolated tornado also can&#8217;t be ruled out. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Storm prediction center threats for Thursday\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a44d6ec8-eded-4ce6-ab6d-5e6cd88c3683-SPC826.PNG\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Storm prediction center threats for Thursday<\/p>\n<p>The cold front producing these storms Thursday will also cool temperatures into the 70s Friday with a few isolated lingering showers possible Friday morning. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"7 day forecast\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"364\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/d525a584-6e17-46fd-982f-34cdcff856b6-7day826.PNG\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For the latest forecast and live local radar click <a href=\"https:\/\/cnycentral.com\/weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re looking ahead to a beautiful first day of The Great New York State Fair with plenty of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-330158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}