By Mark Scott
Buffalo, NY – The National Weather Service says this will end up being the sunniest May in Buffalo history.
Forecasters say less than an inch of rain has fallen this month and that the percentage of sunshine during daytime hours reached a record 84 percent.
Steve McLaughlin is an hydrologist with the Buffalo office of the National Weather Service. He says the dry weather could have caused some problems for farmers if it weren't for an extremely wet April.
"We had a lot of surplus moisture in the ground, dating all the way back to last October's major snowstorm," Mclaughlin said. "The soil moisture in the middle of April was very high. So, that has helped us a little bit."
But McLaughlin says his office is starting to hear from the agricultural sector that the lack of rain this month is starting to put some stress on crops.
Forecasters say showers and thunderstorms are likely this weekend and into early next week.