Break from bitter cold on Tuesday when temps top freezing

By Tom Rivers, Editor Posted 8 February 2026 at 12:55 pm

Cold weather advisory in effect until 10 a.m. Monday

Photo by Tom Rivers: A sign for “Hope,” a road at Mount Albion Cemetery, is shown on Wednesday during a day in the deep freeze.

The area will get a much-needed reprieve from the deep freeze on Tuesday when the high is forecast to reach 36 degrees in Orleans County.

Today is only going to reach a high of 9 degrees with a wind chill at 10 below zero, according to the national Weather Service.

There is a cold weather advisory for Orleans County and much of Western New York until 10 a.m. on Monday with dangerously cold wind chills as low as 20 below zero.

The high will get up to 20 on Monday, then 36 on Tuesday, 30 on Wednesday, 25 on Thursday and 27 on Friday.