2/7/2025
WT Staff
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February 7, 2025 updated 1041 am EST
Winter Storm Watch
URGENT Winter Weather Message issued by NWS New York 316 am EST Fri Feb 7
WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY EVENING
THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING...
Heavy mixed precipitation possible. Total snow and sleet accumulations between 3 and 5 inches and ice accumulations around
a light glaze possible for portions of northeast New Jersey and southeast New York from Saturday evening through Sunday morning. Roads, and especially bridges and overpasses, will likely become slick and hazardous. Plan on slippery road conditions.
Persons should consider delaying all travel. If travel is absolutely necessary, drive with extreme caution. Consider taking a winter
storm kit along with you, including such items as tire chains, booster cables, flashlight, shovel, blankets and extra clothing.
Also take water, a first aid kit, and anything else that would help you survive in case you become stranded.
For more information from the National Weather Service, click here.
Impacting Southern Westchester-New York (Manhattan)-Bronx-Richmond (Staten
Island)-Kings (Brooklyn)-Northwest Suffolk-Northeast Suffolk-
Southwest Suffolk-Southeast Suffolk-Northern Queens-Northern
Nassau-Southern Queens-Southern Nassau-Counties in NY
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Wyoming County: Warsaw residents have their tap water service back to normal, safe for drinking and cooking after a BWA and water conservation notice took effect this week. The BWA was lifted yesterday, according to the notice posted on Village of Warsaw website, however the water conservation notice does remain in effect.
Village of Warsaw serves 3850 residents from a surface water source in the upper Niagara River-Lake Erie watershed. Town of Warsaw is under a separate system with SDWA permit distributing potable water to 140 residents with surface water purchased from the Village. The Town SDWA non-compliance history shows 2 quarters in 2023 concerning the Revised Total Coliform Rule, the Village likewise has had two quarters of the last 12 with non-compliance, a monitoring and reporting miss in 2021 concerning fluoride, and a 2023 non-compliance with Revised Total Coliform Rule.
Chautauqua County: Village of Fredonia and Town of Pomfret customers are under a BWA following a water main break and blown pipe at the Water Treatment Plant on Monday. The notice on Village of Fredonia website states "water customers, including those in the Town of Pomfret must boil all water used for cooking and drinking. There has been a disruption in the disinfection treatment, making the water not safe to drink. Bring all water used for drinking or cooking to a rolling boil, then cool before using. You will be notified when it is no longer necessary to boil water. For more information call the Village at 716-679-2310 or the County Health Department at 716-753-4481."
Fredonia Village water system serves 10,400 customers from a surface water source in Niagara River-Lake Erie watershed.
The new WTNY.us Serious Violator list is here.
National Weather Service seeks weather observers
NWS is calling for volunteer weather observers to take the baton in Mattituck and Carmel. In addition to enthusiasm for climatology, location matters. According to Joe Pollina at NWS, "We are looking to be able to "thread" any new observers data into the observations for these former observers; meaning the new observers' data would be able to be added to the old observers' data and continue their climatology. In order for that to happen, the sites need to be climatologically compatible. This means new observers need to be within a 5 mile radius of the old sites and within 100 ft elevation. Mattituck, being on relatively flat Long Island won't have a problem with these criteria, Carmel being in the higher elevations of the Lower Hudson Valley would be more difficult to find because of the 100 ft elevation requirement and the sparser density of population up that way."
NWS seeks reliable volunteers committed to recording local temperatures, rainfall and snowfall for many years to come:
- Take daily temperature and precipitation
readings
- Instruments and training provided free of charge includes temperature sensor, 8” rain gauge, snow boards
- training provided on how to take measurements and submit the data on line
NWS seeks a complete climatological record for each site, so ideally each observer will have a backup, if possible. Pollina says, "we encourage the observers to designate a backup for when they go on vacations or for any other reasons they may have to be away for an extended period of time."
The temperature sensor has memory, storing daily data for up to 30 days. It is acceptable to record rainfall as a multi-day accumulation. If the observer is away and does not have a back up checking the gauges, high and low temps can be retrieved from the sensor and rainfall measurement can be entered as a total amount for up to a 7 day period. Interested parties can reach out to Joe Pollina at NWS, joseph.pollina@noaa.gov.
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