Albany, NY weather
Today 64° / 49°, sunny · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Today, in the Weather Service’s words
Sunny, with a high near 64. South wind 6 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Seven days
Winter in Albany
Albany averages 56 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a regular snow place. Snow several times a winter, well-practised response. Closures happen but need a real storm.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 56 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 6 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Albany
The nearest radiosonde launch is Albany, about 7 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.
Forecasters covering the Northeast
- Jeffrey GluckIndependent meteorologist covering Northeast winter storms and severe weather. Data-driven forecasts backed by multi-model analysis. Focused on actionable timing and accumulation calls for the I-95 corridor.
- SKYler-WARNNew outlook producer (daily or weekly) Subscribe to YT @RealSkyler_edits (I'm an editor)
- ForecasterHQF
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Albany (api.weather.gov), updated Wed, 12:36 PM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.