What was spinning in the sky on Monday?

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

We had several images and videos showing a slight rotation in the sky north of Irondequoit near Lake Ontario.

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

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

The two reports of funnel clouds were received at 4:01 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. respectively.

Check out the video below to see a spectator video of the rotation in the sky from the shoreline of Lake Ontario.

As it turns out, two funnel clouds fell on Monday afternoon due to thunderstorms north of Rochester.

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

Funnel clouds look like 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 probably the case yesterday, as there were a few reports of wind damage near the respective funnel clouds.

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

At 4:33 p.m., a tornado formed on Grand Island near Buffalo. This tornado was classified as an EF-0 tornado with maximum sustained winds of about 75 miles per hour and a path length of 1.2 miles. The width of this tornado was 75 yards.

A second tornado formed near Pembrooke at around 8:32 p.m. This tornado was also classified as an EF-0 tornado with maximum sustained winds of about 75 mph (120 km/h) and a path length of only 1,000 feet (300 m). The width of this tornado was 150 feet (46 m).

Fortunately, the threat of severe weather ended shortly after the second tornado subsided last night.

The weather will be calmer than ever for this time of year.

A large high pressure system will affect the Great Lakes and New England.

This will bring us plenty of sunshine over the next week and also a gradual warming. Temperatures in Rochester will rise above 25 degrees again on Wednesday afternoon.

By Thursday and Friday we expect temperatures in the region to return to mid-summer temperatures. Maximum temperatures will be around 30 degrees again and the sun will shine more every day.

The weather in Rochester is also expected to be sunny and warm this weekend, with maximum temperatures around 27 degrees.

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