Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Briarcliff Manor, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Yorktown Hts 1W, NY, 9 miles north of Briarcliff Manor at 670 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 83°F and low of 61°F; January is the coolest, at 36°F and 17°F. June is the wettest at 5.0 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.1 inches; the year adds up to 50.3 inches over 83 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 54% of the year's precipitation (27.2 of 50.3 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 45 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (19); a normal September there has highs of 74°F and 4.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 10 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 116 nights a year. Snowfall averages 39.5 inches a year, most of it in February. That 50.3 inches is more than at 124 of the 137 New York stations used on this site (91%). Pleasantville, 2 miles southeast, has its own station (Westchester Co Airport, NY): 47.7 inches a year, 2.6 less than here, and the same July average high, 83°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Kings Point, NY, 24 miles south, averaged 74°F in August and 38°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Kings Point tide gauge, 24 miles from Briarcliff Manor, has risen 1.08 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1931 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 10.8 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 62 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 362 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Briarcliff Manor: 204 thunderstorm wind reports, 122 flash floods, 28 floods, 7 lightning strikes and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 3 people and injured 8, and the NWS estimated $98.7 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 87 mph, on July 9, 1997. July has had the most flash floods, 50 of 122. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 679 have had fewer than Briarcliff Manor.

Flood insurance policyholders in Briarcliff Manor's ZIP code 10510 have filed 113 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $2.6 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Floyd in 1999: 17 claims (15% of all) and $544,000, then Hurricane Ida in 2021 with 17 and Hurricane Irene in 2011 with 16. The year with the most claims was 2011, with 29. 61% 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, 399 have fewer than Briarcliff Manor.