Welcome to the best day of the holiday weekend. It's still going to be breezy, the National Weather Service tells us, but it's going to be mostly sunny and pleasantly warm for a change. Highs will range from the low 70s in and around Buffalo to the upper 70s inland.

Tuesday should be breezier, forecasters say, and quite a bit warmer. Temperatures are expected to climb well into the 80s in most places. It won't last, though. Showers and thunderstorms are likely to move in Tuesday night, along with another strong cold front that's supposed to put us back where we were over the weekend -- the 50s and 60s -- for the rest of the week. Keep those jackets and sweaters handy.

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It's Labor Day, so all local, state and federal government offices are closed. So are the courts. So are the banks. The big box stores are open for that last-minute back-to-school shopping, but a lot of smaller boutiques are taking the day off. Expect to run into traffic jams near the malls, the international bridges and the Thruway toll barriers in Lackawanna and Williamsville.

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Getting out bright and early today are the participants in the fourth annual Fleet Feet 15K -- Run into Buffalo. It starts at 8 a.m. at Erie Canal Harbor, proceeds up Delaware Avenue and returns back downtown to the Central Wharf via the Olmsted Parkway system, i.e., Bidwell Parkway and Richmond Avenue. The race, which hosts the USA National Masters 15K Championship, will draw runners over age 40 from across the nation. Entry fees will go to provide new Brooks training shoes for Western New York high school student athletes in need.

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Working men and women will hit the streets of South Buffalo today for the Buffalo AFL-CIO Labor Council's annual Labor Day Parade. It steps off at noon on Abbott Road at Stevenson Street and continues on Cazenovia Street to North Legion Drive and into Cazenovia Park.

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Western New York area Pakistani-Americans will host a fundraiser to assist victims of the widespread flooding in Pakistan at 6 p.m. in the banquet hall of the Islamic Society of the Niagara Frontier, 745 Heim Road, Amherst. An eyewitness to the flooding who recently returned to the area will make a special presentation. The United Nations has described the disaster as worse than the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake combined.

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Singer-songwriter Stacy Clark, a Grand Island native now living in Los Angeles, got a big break earlier this year when Vanguard Records picked up her independently released CD, "Connect the Dots." She opened for America a couple months ago at Artpark in Lewiston and tonight she returns to one of the places where it all began -- Nietzsche's at 248 Allen St. -- for a 9 p.m. show. A protege of Monday night open stage host Michael Meldrum, she played there regularly when she was in high school back in the mid 1990s.

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Batavia Downs holds a matinee racing program today, with the trotters and pacers starting at 1:15 p.m. Except for Columbus Day, these are the last Monday races of the season. The track will continue its series of New York Sire Stakes races Wednesday and Friday, when post time is 6:40 p.m.

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The Bisons bounced back late in the game Sunday night in Rochester and handed the hapless Red Wings a 6-4 loss. They hope to end the season on a high note in Frontier Field when they meet the Wings again at 1:05 p.m. Listen on WWKB 1520 AM. Watch on Time Warner SportsNet.