MID-HUDSON – Several thousand
people in the Hudson Valley still have no power following last Friday’s
storm that delivered snow, ice and strong winds.
Hang on. Mother Nature has another trick up her sleeve for March with
a second powerful storm system packing high winds and heavy snow in less
than one week expected to hit our region beginning Tuesday evening and
continuing through Thursday.
At this point late Monday afternoon, the state’s list of power outages
by county includes 1,232 in Columbia County, 13,846 in Dutchess, 1,175
in Orange, 18,583 in Putnam, 498 in Rockland, 15,378 in Sullivan, 2,892
in Ulster and 60,896 in Westchester county.
Weather forecasters expect this next storm to begin Tuesday evening with
light snow, which will become moderate to heavy through the day Wednesday
and continuing into early Thursday.
During the day on Wednesday, sustained winds should be 10 to 25 mph with
gusts of 30 to 40 mph.
Snowfall totals could range from six to 14 inches.
