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Orange County Deputy Commissioner for Emergency
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Orange County.

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Orange County Deputy Commissioner for Emergency Services Alan Mack joins News 12 via Zoom to discuss the dangerous road conditions in Orange County.

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For another look at your hyper local forecast as we continue to watch the storm heading into our area. And Alex, I'm seeing some parts on this map showing that snow is expected in some parts of the Hudson Valley on the back end of it, Nadia. Tomorrow morning, we will have a couple of flakes fly and yeah, even some accumulating snow weight of the north and west. But let's first talk about the rain coming in our direction this afternoon. It's still tucked away pretty far to our south. And so we're good here in the Hudson Valley for the morning. We have some areas of fog, but we also have some areas of sunshine. So we'll take it. And certainly if you have any plans before noon, you're good to go. Wind is pretty light for the first part of the day. You would have no idea that a storm was coming except for the fact that it feels a little different out there, it feels a lot warmer than it usually is. This time of the year, we even have temperatures in the fifties in some spots this morning that above average for the afternoon when the afternoon arrives. Now we're starting to kick in some showers. This is two o'clock, four o'clock. Look, we've got some rain passing through at six o'clock still and we continue to see the rain pretty much all through the evening. Some of the worst of the rain will be eight to about midnight or so tonight, it's also quite breezy, 20 to 30 mile per hour wind gusts. You factor in several hours of rain and now you've got some trees coming down, release some branches and that could knock out power. Here's four o'clock in the morning. If you're a really early commuter, you're still dodging rain. And if you're in Sullivan and Ulster County, the high elevations of Ulster County, we're looking at cold enough temperatures for a few snowflakes and then a few flakes will mix in 6 a.m. But at this point, things are drying out. It does stay breezy pretty much all day Monday. In fact, some of the worst wind will be with the sunshine Monday afternoon. I wanna show you two different models here. This is one model showing you the rain all the way up to midnight about an inch or so in White Plains and Yonkers and then it picks up to two inches but notice how close we are to that really heavy rain over Connecticut and Long Island. This other model actually will bring in some of that heavier rain off to our east. I'm gonna show it to you coming up on the other side of the break. But I also wanna show you the winter storm warning in effect for the higher elevations of Ulster County and the advisory in effect for Sullivan. I thought that was kind of important to get to. So I will show you the difference in the rain totals coming up. But a little more good news once we get through Monday, it's totally dry for work week.

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LIVE ZOOM: Orange County Emergency Services

our storm watch coverage continues now this morning. An Orange County one area waking up to that snow on the ground that could lead to a dangerous morning commute for you. So joining us from that area to talk about the situation, there is the Deputy Commissioner for Emergency services alen Mak Alan, thanks for being with us this morning. Hey, good morning. Let's start by talking about the latest conditions out there in Orange County. What are you seeing? Yeah, orange looks pretty good actually. We were forecasting a much more dangerous situation on the road but it looks like we're above freezing and we'll get some mist and I think we're gonna stay above freezing but it's a little different than last night. Last night we had a fatality out on I-84 and uh a lot of rollovers so people still need to be careful on the roads, the roads aren't slick. You still got that crap on the side of the roads that if you get stuck in it could suck you off the edge of the road. Absolutely. We're taking a look at the radar right now as we speak to you and yeah, the rain now the snow last night. But are there, so you mentioned a fatal accident last night. Hopefully things looking a little better this morning. Are you watching any specific weather related incidents right now in the area? Yeah. Right now we're just watching the, you know, we've got the, the light precipitation, it's it's rain and above freezing and we're just concerned it may drop down below freezing again. Which could be a surprise for people out on the road. So I think if people before they go travel, just look at the weather and maybe there's a website that the state puts out 511 new york is a great tool to check road conditions that is great information. Deputy Commissioner for Emergency Services in Orange County, alen Mak, thank you for being with us this morning. We'll check back in and get the latest on conditions there in Orange. All right, thank you. Good morning.

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