CNY Climate in Flux?

With the temperature dropping and the leaves changing color, fall is officially here in Central New York.

Thus far, fall has brought unique weather conditions to the area.

At this point in the month, the average rain fall is just under three-and-a-quarter inches, but, so far, it's only up to a little over one-and-a-half inches.

This low rain fall total comes on the heels of back-to-back winters with very low and very high snow acumulation, respectively.

Has climate change hit Central New York?

One expert says no.

"The amount of precipitation that comes every year can change over the long term, over tens of hundreds of years, but over the short term, its really like watching traffic go up a highway," said Syracuse University earth science professor Bruce Wilkinson. "Sometimes there's a lot of cars close together and sometimes they're pretty far apart."

Wilkinson also said that there aren't many scientists that would think that climate change has hit Central New York merely based off of some recent abnormalities in the weather.

For more on this, head over NCC News' Web site to watch Devon Heinen's story.