Hudson Valley Weather

12/05/2025

530am Friday , December 5th, 2025

Good morning everyone ☕️

Hope everyone Is staying warm out there. Temps will be at their lowest from 6am through 8am, lets see those cold 🥶 temps. You can give us weather obs all day, just letting you know that will be the coldest time. Currently 7° In Kingston at 540am. Please, Be safe and warm
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Weather Observations Thread
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(Example.. Snow, sleet, freezing rain, fog, rain, thunderstorms, hail, wind, temperature, rain gauge if you have one, inches of snow, etc.)

➡️ Please make sure to include your location📌 (city or town) and time 🕑

Pictures 📸 or video 📽️ are welcomed, but please only do so if it’s safe.

Please use HiveStorm.ai to report your weather observations and power outages as well.

Thank you

12/04/2025

When temperatures get really cold out 🥶, everyone digs out the space heaters for some warmth. ⚠️ Please DO NOT plug 🔌 a space heater 🔥 into a power strip.

Power strips can not handle the amount of electricity a space heater uses and overheats. Plug 🔌 the space heater directly into a wall outlet and do not use an extension cord and do not plug into a wall outlet controlled by a wall switch or dimmer switch. Do not run the space heater power cord under carpet or rugs or runners.

⚠️ Plugging a space heater into a power strip can cause a fire 🔥

You can't use a space heater with a wall switch because space heaters require a lot of power, and the wiring in a standard wall switch or circuit can't handle the load, leading to overheating and fire hazards. This is because space heaters can easily overload a circuit, causing it to trip or overheat the wiring.

Electrical overload risk …
Space heaters are a significant electrical load, often drawing between 1,000 and 1,500 watts.
A standard 15A circuit (the most common type) can only handle a maximum of 1,800 watts.

Plugging a space heater into a circuit that already has other devices plugged in can exceed the circuit's capacity, causing the circuit breaker to trip.

Fire hazard …
Overloading a circuit through a wall switch can cause the switch and its wiring to overheat.

If the wiring or switch connections are not rated for the high amperage, they can melt and become a fire hazard.

Using a space heater directly into a wall outlet is safer because it bypasses the risk of overloading a switch that may not be rated for such a high load.

⚠️ Please read your owners manual for proper safety use information.

Please share this and help prevent a structure fire 🔥 .. Thank you

Please be safe

12/04/2025

625pm Thursday, December 4th, 2025

⚠️🥶 Reposting to remind everyone of tomorrow (Friday) mornings single digit temps. Tuesday morning will be the next single digit weather.

Please, if using space heaters, read owners manual first .. We will repost not using an outlet strip for space heaters as a reminder as well.

Read in comments today that someone has already experienced a flood and a fallen ceiling from a frozen pipe burst from a neighbor.

Hope everyone keeps warm .. be safe

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Delaware County ❄️

12/04/2025

Winter Storm Recap : Tuesday 12/2/25

Our first winter storm of the 25-26 season is in the books. It was a low to moderate impact event around the region, with most of the valley seeing between 2 and 6 inches of snow... while the Catskills saw an average of 6 to 8 inches, and even a few locations seeing as much as 10" (Liberty). [snow totals in comments].

The storm behaved rather well, without too many surprises. The expected rain/snow line 'battleground' set up in the expected position, with areas from Poughkeepsie, down to Newburgh and Monroe seeing between 2 and 4 inches in most cases... with several hours of snow followed by a mix of sleet & freezing rain. Further south, in Rockland and Westchester counties... it was mostly a cold rain.

When stacked up against our Final Snowfall forecast... the results were quite close. The ranges of our 1 to 3 and 3 to 6 inch forecast were pretty close, and the 4 to 8 inch bullseye in the Catskills was well placed. All in all, there's not a lot that we would have changed with our forecast. But in the end we'll let you be the final judge.

12/04/2025

745pm Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
⚠️🥶 Cold weather prepare

There’s some really cold weather arriving Thursday night into Friday morning

With the temps dropping so cold, it’s a great idea to prepare now once again for frozen pipes, tend to live stock and prepare them for the freezing temperatures, and any outdoor pets as well should be brought indoors or some kind of way to set something up for them if they can’t come indoors. Please don’t forget about water for strays, livestock, and birds, you may have to break the ice water and put fresh drinking water out again, and repeat after it freezes over again.

If anyone has any ideas to help out, please feel free to post them in the comments. I read one one time where someone mentioned changing out the damp wet straw with clean dry straw, etc .. Was a very good idea and I’m sure there are more ideas that would be helpful. “Never use hay for animals outside, use straw. Hay gets damp and an animal can literally freeze and die”.

Please be careful when using space heaters, kerosene heaters, candles, etc. Please plug space heaters directly into the wall outlet and not into an outlet strip.

You have from now through tomorrow (Thursday) evening to prepare.

Please, be safe

Please see graphics for more details
Please see video of temps dropping in comments

12/04/2025

For possible school delays for Thursday, December 4th, 2025

Not seeing any delays as of this post, but posting now just in case there is later tonight or tomorrow morning.

⚠️ School delays, on this thread ONLY. ➡️ Anything other than this will be deleted.

Posting this for possible school delays for Thursday from the inclement weather we just received yesterday. It’s ok to provide a link or screenshot, provided it’s a trusted source. Thank you

Please, only post school delays information if you’re sure about it and it’s accurate.

When posting using abbreviations, some schools use the same abbreviations and turns into much confusion, so please spell out the school names if you can. Thank you

Please don’t type F , Follow, or a dot. There’s 3 dots on the top right corner of the post, click on it and click onto Turn On Notifications for this post. And please don’t post “Nothing yet” as it will also fill the comments up.

⚠️ Please be respectful of any closings or delays, there’s good reason the officials are doing this, SAFETY!

Thank you 😃

12/04/2025

7pm Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025

Good evening everyone ☕️

Hope you are all doing well and also hope everyone made out ok with yesterdays snow/rain and then black ice overnight into the morning.

There’s still a chance for black ice to form now through tomorrow morning from any snow that may have melted today. Temps in the valleys are around 27° now and remain the same by tomorrow morning and reach a high of 37° by afternoon. Temps in the higher terrain are 25° now and will rise to around 28° by tomorrow morning with a high of 32° by afternoon.

The black ice shouldn’t be as bad as last night into this morning, but, just something to be cautious of. Just checked and didn’t see any delays as of this post, but may just put up a school delays post for tomorrow (Thursday) just in case.

Hope everyone has a great night and please be safe

12/03/2025

Good morning NY! Many of us saw the first plowable snow yesterday, so your vehicle might be a bit snow-covered this morning. Before you head out, take a little time to clear all the snow off your car—don't forget the roof, windows, and lights! Blowing snow and ice chunks can be dangerous for other drivers. Let’s make sure we keep the roads safe for everyone!