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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 - 10:19 am
Above: A running spigot at Hubbell Bros. in the Delaware County town of Middletown gets the polar vortex treatment. Photo taken on Wednesday by Watershed Post reader Burr Hubbell, who writes, "The water's still running inside that icicle thingy. It's just... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014 - 10:11 pm
Above: Screenshot from Central Hudson's outage map showing widespread power outages in the Ulster County towns of Woodstock and Olive.
On Tuesday evening, with temperatures in the single digits and subzero wind chills, Central Hudson was reporting... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014 - 4:30 pm
Don't touch that dial (til 10 p.m.). Closeup photo of washing machine control panel by Flickr user Chris Dillon; published under Creative Commons license.
Officials at the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), the nonprofit company that manages... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 - 3:25 pm
Left: An image taken from a NY Thruway traffic webcam near Exit 57 at 3:21 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 6. For more Thruway webcams in the Buffalo region, see this page on the NY Thruway website.
The New York State Thruway will be partially shut down due to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 - 12:24 pm
Above: A chilly early-morning scene in the Schoharie County town of Esperance, taken Sunday morning by Flickr user A Man Called ACME. It's about to get chillier, as a front of Arctic air sends temperatures plunging across the Northeast. Photo shared in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014 - 2:01 pm
Thousands of households in rural Delaware County lost power during the early morning hours on Saturday, January 4, in a NYSEG power outage that struck on the same night as a brutal cold snap.
The outage struck over 4,000 of NYSEG's customers in the county... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 3, 2014 - 12:47 pm
Above: The view from the newly-opened Windfall trail at Windham Mountain, where about a foot of light, powdery snow fell during the recent snowstorm. Belleayre, Hunter and Plattekill are also rejoicing in a bumper crop of fresh powder.
Skies over the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 - 4:47 pm
In a news conference this afternoon, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared that several major roads in New York State would be closed late tonight because of the snowstorm bearing down on the Northeast.
In the Hudson Valley, I-84 will be closed to commercial traffic... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 - 11:47 am
A snowstorm moving into upstate New York from the southwest is expected to dump heavy snow on the Catskills, starting this afternoon and continuing overnight.
A combination of heavy snow, blowing winds and subzero temperatures will make travel in the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013 - 11:33 pm
Above: A screenshot of the forecast hydrograph for the West Branch of the Delaware River in Walton, taken at 11:20 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 21.
The National Weather Service at Binghamton has issued a flood warning for the West Branch in Walton, effective... Read more
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