2/14/2025
WT Staff
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February 14, 2025 1010 am EST
Town of New Hartford, Frankfort BWAs lifted
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Oneida County: A BWA has been rescinded for customers in the Town of New Hartford and Frankfort. A 12-inch water main main ruptured on Tuesday. More to follow.
Wyoming County: Varysburg experienced a BWA this week, the order issued Tuesday due to low chlorine levels. The BWA was expected to last until sometime yesterday. Varysburg Water District 1 water treatment plant serves 350 residents from a groundwater well source in Niagara River -Lake Erie watershed. The facility has no violations identified by the US EPA as far as the last verified data, the quarter ended Sep 30, 2024.
The new WTNY.us Serious Violator list is here.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM SATURDAY TO 9 AM EST
SUNDAY issued by NWS Binghamton 403 am Fri Feb 14
Mixed precipitation expected. Total snow and sleet
accumulations between 2 and 5 inches and ice accumulations up to
two tenths of an inch.
Plan on slippery road conditions. Another round of snow moves in on Saturday, changing to sleet and freezing rain Saturday night before changing to all rain Sunday morning as temperatures rise above freezing.
Slow down and use caution while traveling. The latest road conditions for the state you are calling from can be obtained by calling 5 1 1.
Impacting Yates-Seneca-Southern Cayuga-Steuben-Schuyler-Chemung-Tompkins-
Cortland-Tioga-Broome Counties
Including the cities of Penn Yan, Seneca Falls, Binghamton,
Corning, Ithaca, Auburn, Cortland, Watkins Glen, Waverly,
Hornell, Elmira, and Owego
National Weather Service Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for the Lower Hudson Valley Saturday afternoon into Sunday morning with total snowfall 2 to 4 inches, in some places up to 5 inches. Ice accretion is expected, a glaze of tenths of an inch, the highest amounts expected closer to I-84.
Snow is expected to develop Saturday afternoon, briefly mixing with sleet, followed by
freezing rain Saturday evening, becoming straight rain Saturday night or early Sunday morning. The combination of ice and slippery wet snow will make travel conditions hazardous, especially on elevated surfaces.
What is ice accretion?
From Science Direct, "The accretion of ice is a hazardous, natural phenomenon that economically and structurally affects a wide range of infrastructure applications including communication towers, offshore maritime platforms, machine building systems, power transmission lines, and commercial buildings. Some of the detrimental effects in this regard can include an increase in load, equipment malfunctioning, increased maintenance costs, and risks to human health and safety."
Ice accretion is different from freezing rain or sleet. Glaze ice forms when supercooled water droplets (droplets that remain liquid below the freezing temperature) collide with partially melted ice crystals to form wet snow, "the glaze ice forms when the droplets run as a thin film before freezing."
Streamflow Situation from the USGS New York Water Science Center network of monitors
Water levels remain below seasonal normal Friday, the central drainage basin predominantly below the 10th percentile from the upper basins of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers all the way to Long Island Sound. A record low flow is observed in the St. Lawrence River watershed on Raquette River at South Colton. The extreme low flow recorded on East Canada Creek has improved overnight.
The drought map remains unchanged from our report yesterday, Mohawk River channel remains in moderate drought through Oneida, south Herkimer, Montgomery and Fulton Counties. The Upper Hudson River watershed is in moderate drought in Saratoga and south Washington Counties. The Lower Hudson River watershed remains in moderate drought from Putnam to central Westchester Counties. Delaware River watershed remains in moderate drought through Sullivan County. Oswego River-Finger Lakes, Black River and part of the St. Lawrence River watershed remain below normal. Mohawk River watershed west of the Catksills and the Lower Hudson River watershed west of Hudson River remain below normal.
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