Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Cold Spring, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is West Point, NY, 4 miles southwest of Cold Spring at 320 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 85°F and low of 65°F; January is the coolest, at 36°F and 21°F. October is the wettest at 5.3 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.0 inches; the year adds up to 51.5 inches over 84 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 55% of the year's precipitation (28.3 of 51.5 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 34 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (14); a normal September there has highs of 76°F and 4.6 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 110 nights a year. Snowfall averages 35.7 inches a year, most of it in January. That 51.5 inches is more than at 128 of the 137 New York stations used on this site (93%). Fishkill, 7 miles north, has its own station (Poughkeepsie Dutchess Co Airport, NY): 41.9 inches a year, 9.6 less than here, and the same July average high, 85°F.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 221 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Cold Spring: 153 thunderstorm wind reports, 51 flash floods, 9 floods, 6 lightning strikes and 2 heavy rain events. They killed 2 people and injured 3, and the NWS estimated $14.6 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 105 mph, on May 15, 2018. July has had the most flash floods, 32 of 51. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 550 have had fewer than Cold Spring.

Flood insurance policyholders in Cold Spring's ZIP code 10516 have filed 59 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1992, and were paid $2.6 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irene in 2011: 17 claims (29% of all) and $479,000, then Hurricane Sandy in 2012 with 13. 85% 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, 311 have fewer than Cold Spring.