By Nancy Peckenham
Halloween hasn’t happened yet and there has been no hard frost – but the first snowstorm of the season is expected to hit the area on Saturday, dumping between six to ten inches of heavy wet snow across Orange County.
The National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch for the area beginning early Saturday morning through late Saturday night. It predicts the early season snowfall will start with light snow mixed with rain around daybreak, changing over to all snow and increasing in intensity throughout the afternoon before tapering off late Saturday night.
Widespread hazardous conditions are expected, with local power outages possible because of fallen tree branches laden with heavy wet snow.
UPDATE:
Acting City Manager Richard F. Herbek has declared a snow emergency in the City of Newburgh effective at 8 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011
A snow emergency automatically goes into effect at any time there has been an accumulation of snow and ice of 2 1/2 inches or more.
During a snow emergency, alternate side of the street parking regulations are in effect as follows:
- On north-south streets, parking is permitted on the east side of the street only for 24 hours, from 6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of each week, and on the west side of the street only for 24 hours, from 6 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
- On east-west streets, parking shall be permitted only on the north side of the street for 24 hours from 6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and on the south side of the street only for 24 hours from 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
- On all other City streets, the Police Department will designate the side of the street on which parking is permitted, with parking being allowed on one side of the street on Monday, Wednesday and Friday each week, and on the other side, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Permitted parking on each side of the street will be from 6 p.m. from the time the emergency is declared, until 24 hours thereafter.
- No parking will be allowed at all on designated snow emergency routes. Snow emergency routes are as follows: Broadway, both sides from West Street to the City line, Dupont Avenue, Lake Street, Leroy Place, and Little Britain Road, both sides, entire length, North Street, both sides from Leroy Place to Robinson Avenue, Robinson Avenue, and South Robinson Avenue, South Street, South Water Street, and Water Street (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd.), both sides entire length.
- Parking is allowed in City parking lots on Ann Street, Van Ness between Fullerton and Prospect, and on Chambers Street.
- Cars illegally parked during a snow emergency WILL BE TOWED.
- Residents will find snow emergency updates on local radio stations, including WGNY 1220 AM, WBNR, 1260 AM, WHUD, 100.7 FM, WSPK, 104.7, WWLE, 1170 AM, WPDH 101.5 &101.6 FM, WRRV, 92.7 FM & 96.9FM, 94.3/97.3 FM The Wolf, and MIX 97.7-FM; local television stations, and on the Internet at www.midhudsonnews.com and the City website, www.cityofnewburgh-ny.gov. Snow emergency announcements will also be made in English and Spanish on the City Hall Hotline, 569-7398.
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