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Joe Jenkins, of Central Hudson Utilities, joins News
12 via Zoom to discuss power outages. The utility company has
increased its crews to help keep your power on.

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Joe Jenkins, of Central Hudson Utilities, joins News 12 via Zoom to discuss power outages. The utility company has increased its crews to help keep your power on.

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All right. There are less than 21 days until Christmas and a week to the first day of winter. I don't like, I, I don't like talking about that. I just go, don't worry, Kevin, we're gonna go ahead and make sure that we're gonna have any cold air coming our way as we move on in towards those first few days of winter coming on up because you can see that temperature trend for the month of December shows us trending on the warmer than average side. In which case, the average high throughout the month is around 39 to 47 degrees. So we'll be seeing sixties and seventies. No, but we'll be trending a little bit around 47. Are you a little bit warmer? Yeah, it is certainly possible. Especially heading up in tours this weekend. I'll show you those numbers in just a moment first. These numbers right here as we're continuing the countdown for the holiday season. We do have winter officially arriving December 21st in the evening hours, 17 days from now. Christmas arrives, of course, December 25th, 21 days from now. So you still have time to go ahead and continue some holiday shopping and New Year's Eve, of course, getting ready to ring in 2024 27 days from now. Looking out and about, it's a quiet night out there past the Cuomo Bridge. We are watching those skies getting clearer as time goes on, temperatures cooling down to the upper thirties and then we'll watch more cloud cover head our way going in through the middle of the day, but no showers are coming out of those clouds. In fact, we'll continue to enjoy a dry stretch of weather. We certainly do need to have that kind of raw wet day on Sunday. Well, look at this, our next chance of rain is coming up this coming Sunday where we're gonna be a large system moving towards the northeast, but Saturday is gonna be beautiful. It's my pick of the week. Probably cloudy guys, 53 degrees for a high running nearly 10 degrees above the average high of 44. So through your future cast, we go tomorrow afternoon we have temperatures in the thirties and forties feeling a little bit cooler. And then by Wednesday morning we see those temperatures in the twenties and thirties having a touch of a chill in the air. So each and every morning going forward, it's gonna feel bit colder and colder. Getting in towards Friday to Saturday. Here comes that system heading our way. A southerly breeze will help to boost those temperatures on Friday and Saturday. Then here comes the rain, Sunday morning, just rain coming on down, breezy winds. Then the system is out of here by Sunday night. So we should go in towards our Monday coming out of next week with drier, yet cooler air coming on down. So guys overall a very nice stretch of 10 days with one dreary day in sight.

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LIVE ZOOM: Central Hudson Utilities

our storm watch continues now this morning with strong wind and snow in parts of the Hudson Valley. Utility companies are ramping up their efforts to help keep your power on and joining us now this morning from central Hudson is joe Jenkins talking about the latest conditions that you guys are seeing in your area, joe. I'm looking at your website right now. Let's talk about the outages that your customers are currently experiencing. Are there any particular areas where you're seeing a big problem right now? Sure. Well, we're seeing some some sporadic outages and it's in the areas that we were really focusing on as we started our preparations and that's in the predominantly the, on the west side of the Hudson river, the western portion of our territory and then further north as well. We're starting to see some outages pop up of a little over 3000 right now. But you know, we do have our crews out there and they're starting to respond to those outages right now and talk to us about what's causing those outages that you know of at this point. Is it down trees or what are we looking at? Yeah. Generally speaking, when it comes to a storm, the number one cause of outages, When it comes to storms is down trees and tree limbs that fall onto wires and bring them down. So that is any time we have a storm like this, that's the primary cause of our attitudes. So what message do you have for your customers who have lost power this morning? I mean, what can we expect as far as restoration time? Well, we have a field force of more than 400 out there that are ready to respond when outages do occur. So we we were prepared for the storm. We've been monitoring those conditions in the event that if they do happen to deteriorate at all. The best thing that customers can do to report their outages is to go to our website. If they have the access to it central hudson.com or on their smartphone or through our app, you can report our outage there. That's the best way to do it. You can also call us at 84545 to 2700 and important safety tip really is as we're talking about those down power lines is if somebody does see one is to make sure that they stay at least 30 ft away from them if they do and then report that to us. Absolutely. Hopefully they can access your website and call you on their phone if they aren't able to get onto a computer, joe thank you for the update. We appreciate your time this morning. Thank you. And if you are dealing with an outage, go to our website as well. News 12 dot com. We do have a full list of resources for you to help you get those lights back on

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