High Winds, Deep Chill In The Hudson Valley

Unless you are a polar bear, you are not going to want to be outside much this week. Wind chill temperatures could hit below -15 degrees Monday in the Hudson Valley, the National Weather Service said.

A wind advisory is in effect until 7 p.m. Monday. Gusts up 50 mph, with the strongest winds likely in the afternoon, could blow down tree limbs and power lines. Scattered power outages are expected.

The cold wind chills could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 30 minutes.

If you need to be on the roads, be cautious of black ice. Any residual moisture and leftover standing water from the snow, sleet, freezing rain and rain that fell Sunday will freeze.

Crews in various towns are already working on broken water mains.

The weekend storm dropped snow, sleet, ice pellets and rain on the Hudson Valley. Parts of the upper Hudson reported10 inches of snow, says Hudson Valley Weather, while the Sound Shore got lots of rain. All of it froze solid overnight.

For the rest of the week, we'll see big swings in temps, from a low of -5 on Monday night to a high of 48 on Thursday.

There are two chances for snow this week, the first on Wednesday; and we should get a lot of rain on Thursday.

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PHOTO: Icy trees in Putnam County/ Lanning Taliaferro