ALBANY — New predictions from the National Weather Service have Friday’s winter storm dumping between 3 and 6 inches of snow on the Capital Region.
The Friday storm, which will also affect the Hudson Valley, will be followed Sunday night by freezing rain, potentially complicating the entire travel weekend.
The snow is expected to begin sometime between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday in the area, National Weather Service Meteorologist Kevin Lipton said on Thursday afternoon. The Hudson Valley could be the most severely impacted, getting between five and eight inches of snowfall, with the snow “coming down really heavily” in the first hours of the event — when many could be headed back home from their holiday celebrations…