Putnam Lake, New York Weather
Putnam Lake, New York — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Putnam Lake, Putnam County.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Putnam Lake.
About Putnam Lake, New York
Putnam Lake, a body of water the color of tarnished silver under a sky that can turn from pale robin's egg blue to bruised twilight in a matter of hours, exhales a quiet dampness into the air, a perpetual scent of moss and fallen leaves clinging to the surrounding slopes. It lies 6.7 miles north-west of Danbury, CT (from Danbury, CT: bearing 314°T), and is situated 7.3 miles east-north-east of Carmel. The land here, a rumpled quilt of deciduous woods and sun-dappled clearings, rolls and pitches, its contours smoothed by the slow, persistent work of ancient glaciers. Great oaks, their bark a rugged tapestry of fissures, stand sentinel over patches of fern, their branches reaching like arthritic fingers towards the heavens, while the lake itself, a placid eye reflecting the ever-changing moods of the sky, laps gently against reedy shores. In the hushed hours before dawn, a mist often rises, a spectral breath that softens the edges of the landscape and muffles the sounds of the waking world, lending an ethereal quality to the very air you breathe. The history of Putnam Lake is a story whispered in the weathered clapboard of its older homes and the faint echoes of industry. Once, the land hummed with the labor of farming, with fields cleared by hand yielding their bounty, and later, the rhythmic thud of machinery from small factories that dotted the periphery. Though those days of robust manufacturing have largely receded, the spirit of industriousness persists, now channeled into a more intimate, community-focused economy. You see it in the local hardware store, a repository of practical wisdom, and in the small businesses that line the main thoroughfares, each a vital thread in the fabric of Putnam Lake. The lake itself remains the heart, a place for quiet contemplation, for the splash of a canoe paddle, and for the memory of generations who have drawn sustenance and solace from its cool embrace.
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| Location | Putnam Lake, Putnam County, New York |
| Coordinates | 41.462038°N, 73.546236°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 12563 |
| Area Code | 845 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Putnam Lake, New York Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Putnam Lake, New York, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Putnam Lake includes coordinates 41.462038°N, 73.546236°W, situated in Putnam County. ZIP code 12563. Telephone area code: 845. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
