Hazardous Weather Outlook Issued for the Hudson Valley

The National Weather Service has issued one Hazardous Weather Outlook for Friday for Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester counties and a slightly different one for Dutchess and Ulster.

In the lower Hudson Valley, the NWS says isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are possible into this evening and have potential to produce damaging wind gusts.

Showers and thunderstorm are likely to work through the region late tonight into Saturday morning in association with a slow moving cold front. There is a threat for flash flooding in the path of a low pressure wave tracking along this front. Uncertainty exists on the exact track of this wave at this time...as it could be anywhere from the Northern Mid-Atlantic to Southern New England.

In the Mid Hudson,

There is a Marginal Risk of severe thunderstorms today. The primary threat will be damaging wind gusts.

In addition, thunderstorms will be capable of producing locally very heavy rainfall today into tonight. This could lead to flooding of urban and or poor drainage areas and isolated flash flooding.