Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Port Washington, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Mineola, NY, 8 miles southeast of Port Washington 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 48 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); 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%). Great Neck, 3 miles southwest, 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 southwest, 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 Port Washington, 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 425 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Port Washington: 204 thunderstorm wind reports, 170 flash floods, 36 floods and 15 lightning strikes. They killed 10 people and injured 40, and the NWS estimated $24.7 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 100 mph, on July 7, 2009. August has had the most flash floods, 51 of 170. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 715 have had fewer than Port Washington.

Flood insurance policyholders in Port Washington's ZIP code 11050 have filed 256 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $3.6 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from December Storm - Nor'easter in 1992: 46 claims (18% of all) and $762,000, then Hurricane Sandy in 2012 with 35 and Hurricane Ida in 2021 with 31. 66% 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, 458 have fewer than Port Washington.