Utica Area Likely Spared Brunt of Potentially Historic East Coast Blizzard of January 2015

A weather system that is forecast to bring record snow to the Eastern Seaboard may bypass Central New York leaving just a few inches of accumulation.

According to a Sunday (January 25) 3:30pm briefing released by the National Weather Service in Binghamton:

• Otsego County, the Catskills, Capitol District and Hudson Valley are under a Winter Storm Watch
• Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester Counties are under a Blizzard Warning as is New York City, Long Island and portions of New Jersey and Connecticut.
• Light snow begins to develop south of the Mohawk Valley on Monday Morning.
• Light snow moves north into Utica, Rome, Syracuse and begins to fizzle out near Boonville and the Oneida/Lewis County line by Monday Afternoon.
• Snow departs the North County Monday evening, as the heaviest snow conditions hit the Capitol District, Hudson Valley and downstate New York.
• Snowfall estimates: 3-4 inches in Central Oneida County along the Thruway corridor. 4-6 inches in Southern Oneida County and 2-3 inches in Northern Oneida County