Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Little Neck, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Mineola, NY, 6 miles east of Little Neck at 96 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 87°F and low of 68°F; January is the coolest, at 42°F and 27°F. March is the wettest at 4.4 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.0 inches; the year adds up to 45.4 inches over 74 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 51% of the year's precipitation (23.2 of 45.4 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 50 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (22); a normal September there has highs of 78°F and 4.1 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 16 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 83 nights a year. Snowfall averages 18.5 inches a year, most of it in February. That 45.4 inches is more than at 86 of the 137 New York stations used on this site (63%). Douglaston, 1 mile northwest, has its own station (Bronx, NY): 50.1 inches a year, 4.7 more than here, and a July average high of 86°F against 87°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Kings Point, NY, 4 miles northwest, 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, 4 miles from Little Neck, 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 514 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Little Neck: 252 thunderstorm wind reports, 206 flash floods, 31 floods, 22 lightning strikes and 3 heavy rain events. They killed 17 people and injured 49, and the NWS estimated $23.9 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 125 mph, on September 16, 2010. August has had the most flash floods, 56 of 206. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 748 have had fewer than Little Neck.

Flood insurance policyholders in Little Neck's ZIP code 11362 have filed 61 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $220,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The year with the most claims was 1984, with 16. 21% 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, 315 have fewer than Little Neck.