Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency on Friday ahead of dangerous cold temperatures and a massive winter storm expected to dump up to 18 inches of snow across much of New York through Monday.
Extreme cold will grip the state Friday night, with wind chill temperatures plunging as low as negative 50 degrees in some areas on Friday night and negative 30 degrees Saturday night. The National Weather Service issued extreme cold watches from 7 p.m. Friday to 1 p.m. Saturday for the North Country.
>> CNY hasn’t seen a stretch of bitterly cold weather like this in years…