Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Pleasant Valley, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Millbrook 3 W, NY, 4 miles northeast of Pleasant Valley at 413 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 83°F and low of 59°F; January is the coolest, at 35°F and 16°F. August and September are the wettest at 4.6 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.1 inches; the year adds up to 46.0 inches over 87 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 54% of the year's precipitation (24.8 of 46.0 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 30 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (13); a normal September there has highs of 74°F and 4.6 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 9 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 141 nights a year. That 46.0 inches is more than at 90 of the 137 New York stations used on this site (66%). Hyde Park, 6 miles northwest, has its own station (Poughkeepsie, NY): 47.1 inches a year, 1.1 more than here, and the same July average high, 83°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Turkey Point Hudson River NERRS, NY, 20 miles north, averaged 79°F in July and 35°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 303 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Pleasant Valley: 256 thunderstorm wind reports, 28 flash floods, 15 floods, 3 lightning strikes and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 5 people and injured 4, and the NWS estimated $12.6 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 145 mph, on May 18, 2000. September has had the most flash floods, 10 of 28. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 438 have had fewer than Pleasant Valley.

Flood insurance policyholders in Pleasant Valley's ZIP code 12569 have filed 55 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1981, and were paid $1.4 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from April 2007 Nor'easter in 2007: 15 claims (27% of all) and $672,000, then Hurricane Irene in 2011 with 13. The year with the most claims was 2011, with 18. 60% 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, 299 have fewer than Pleasant Valley.