If you were looking forward to the mid-Hudson Valley snowstorms of decades past, with the hype surrounding the upcoming season, you might be out of luck this winter.

According to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Chad Merrill, you would want to be in the Great Lakes region, the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest, the northern parts of the Rocky Mountains, or the middle part of the Mississippi Valley into the Tennessee Valley, from eastern Oklahoma into West Virginia, to see that level of storms.

"It'll probably come off as an average winter," Merrill said for the mid-Hudson Valley.

Local skiers can still anticipate a pretty good season, with cooler weather coming in at the end of November and early December, and if cooler temperatures are sustained, it should allow for the "ski

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