A broken line of snow showers and localized snow squalls pushed across eastern New York ahead of a secondary cold front during the afternoon hours on January 11, 2026 leading to some brief visibility reductions to one quarter of a mile or less and wind gusts up to 30 mph. Behind the front, strong winds developed across the region with peak gusts between 40 and 50 mph in some locations.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS ALY wrote it up.
A broken line of snow showers and localized snow squalls pushed across eastern New York ahead of a secondary cold front during the afternoon hours on January 11, 2026 leading to some brief visibility reductions to one quarter of a mile or less and wind gusts up to 30 mph. Behind the front, strong winds developed across the region with peak gusts between 40 and 50 mph in some locations.
Key impacts: travel delays.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 11, 1:17 PM EST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
7 strong wind, 3 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Snow squall. The New York State Mesonet near Sprakers webcam shows visibilities reducing to around one quarter of a mile with a peak wind gust of 30 mph.
Snow squall. The New York State Mesonet near Duanesburg webcam showed visibilities reduced to less than one quarter of a mile with a peak wind gust of 28 mph.
Snow squall. A traffic camera on the Adirondack Northway, Interstate 87 Southbound, just north of the twin bridges, showed visibilities briefly reduced to one quarter of a mile or less within a passing snow squall.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New York in 2026Every state in 2026This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, January 2026
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1308797, 1308802, 1308810, 1308830, 1308831, 1308832, 1308833, 1308834, 1308835, 1308836.