Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Bedford, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Stamford 5 N, CT, 6 miles southeast of Bedford at 190 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 85°F and low of 64°F; January is the coolest, at 38°F and 22°F. September is the wettest at 5.2 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.1 inches; the year adds up to 51.5 inches over 81 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 51% of the year's precipitation (26.5 of 51.5 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 44 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (20); a normal September there has highs of 76°F and 5.2 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 18 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 119 nights a year. Snowfall averages 34.0 inches a year, most of it in February. That 51.5 inches is more than at 128 of the 137 New York stations used on this site (93%). Bedford Hills, 4 miles northwest, has its own station (Yorktown Hts 1W, NY): 50.3 inches a year, 1.2 less than here, and a July average high of 83°F against 85°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Bridgeport, CT, 23 miles east, averaged 76°F in August and 39°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Bridgeport tide gauge, 23 miles from Bedford, has risen 1.35 ± 0.08 inches per decade from 1964 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 13.5 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 81 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 214 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Bedford: 171 thunderstorm wind reports, 33 flash floods, 4 floods, 4 lightning strikes and 2 heavy rain events. They killed 1 person and injured 7, and the NWS estimated $6.0 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on July 21, 2010. July has had the most flash floods, 16 of 33. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 475 have had fewer than Bedford.

Flood insurance policyholders in Bedford's ZIP code 10506 have filed 39 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $228,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 59% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 549 New York cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 241 have fewer than Bedford.