New Yorkers brace for snow the night before winter storm

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Storm chaser Aaron Jayjack reported live from I-87 in Albany, New York, as people throughout the region prepared for the first major snow of the season.

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00:00 Accuweather's extreme storm chaser Aaron Jajak is preparing to track this winter storm in the Hudson Valley.

00:06 It's the first one in the season and you're joining us from Albany, New York. Aaron, what's it looking like there?

00:11 Yeah, so I just got in Albany, New York just a couple hours ago and it is cold here.

00:18 So that cold air that's been mentioned by Accuweather coming down from Canada to create the snowstorm

00:23 that's coming through this weekend is here. Cold air.

00:26 We've had a little bit of snow flurries, cloudy here in the valley. I've punched through the clouds coming through.

00:32 Out of Philadelphia I could see the Hudson River once we got through those clouds.

00:36 But it is looking like people are preparing for that winter storm here. I've got I-87 right back behind me here.

00:42 They've got the signs lit up mentioning the snowstorm coming through starting tomorrow night through Sunday.

00:47 So I'll be tracking that storm here in that Hudson Valley from Albany all the way down to the Catskill Mountains.

00:52 It looks like that Catskill Mountains area could be a bullseye in the Hudson Valley for the snow.

00:57 And you are getting out and about, of course, seeing a lot of the roadway conditions.

01:04 How has that been just traveling around?

01:06 It's not too bad right now. I mentioned a little bit of flurries, but the road conditions are quite good right now.

01:14 But there's going to be a different story in about 24 hours.

01:17 Expecting at least 6 inches here probably in Albany through the valley, 6 to 12 inches.

01:23 But right now the roads are good, traffic's flowing back behind me.

01:26 You can see the interstate cars racing by behind me there on the interstate.

01:29 So no problems yet, but things are going to be changing tomorrow night.

01:33 Probably a lot of last-minute shopping.

01:36 Extreme Storm Chaser Aaron Jajak is covering the storm on the I-87 corridor for us.

01:40 Thanks for joining us.

01:41 And again, we'll have more from him as we go through the upcoming hours.

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