Winter Weather — Hamilton, New York

2025-12-26 to 2025-12-27 · Hamilton, New York

Event narrative

Zone average snowfall of 3.2 inches.

Wider weather episode

Another complex winter storm impacted eastern New York, this time just after Christmas, December 26-27, 2025. After days worth of storm track shifting in the guidance, the resulting more northerly track of the storm brought widespread moderate to heavy snow across most of the region. The heaviest snow fell within portions of the Eastern Catskills, immediate Capital District, Mid-Hudson Valley, and southern Taconics where snowfall totals ranged from about 5 to 10 inches. The Southern Adirondacks and Upper-Hudson Valley also received snow as a result of this event, though only light to locally moderate accumulations of about 2 to 6 inches were reported.

The Governor of New York issued a state of emergency in Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Herkimer, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Rensselaer, and Ulster Counties beginning with this event and spanning the lake effect and ice events that followed shortly thereafter due to the imminent danger the resulting conditions posed to public transportation, utility services, public health, and public safety systems.

Key impacts: traffic accidents, travel delays, state of emergency declaration.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1308415. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.