Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Pound Ridge, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Stamford 5 N, CT, 6 miles south of Pound Ridge at 190 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 85°F and low of 64°F; January is the coolest, at 38°F and 22°F. September is the wettest at 5.2 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.1 inches; the year adds up to 51.5 inches over 81 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 51% of the year's precipitation (26.5 of 51.5 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 46 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); a normal September there has highs of 76°F and 5.2 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 119 nights a year. Snowfall averages 34.0 inches a year, most of it in February. That 51.5 inches is more than at 128 of the 137 New York stations used on this site (93%). South Salem, 4 miles northeast, has its own station (Danbury Municipal Airport, CT): 48.1 inches a year, 3.4 less than here, and a July average high of 82°F against 85°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Bridgeport, CT, 21 miles east, averaged 76°F in August and 39°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Bridgeport tide gauge, 21 miles from Pound Ridge, has risen 1.35 ± 0.08 inches per decade from 1964 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 13.5 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 81 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 172 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Pound Ridge: 151 thunderstorm wind reports, 15 flash floods, 3 lightning strikes, 2 heavy rain events and 1 flood. They killed 3 people and injured 4, and the NWS estimated $594,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on May 15, 2018. July has had the most flash floods, 8 of 15. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 228 have had fewer than Pound Ridge.

Flood insurance policyholders in Pound Ridge's ZIP code 10576 have filed 24 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $126,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 54% 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, 143 have fewer than Pound Ridge.