Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Roosevelt, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Oceanside, NY, 4 miles southwest of Roosevelt at 12 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 82°F and low of 67°F; January is the coolest, at 39°F and 26°F. March and June are the wettest at 4.6 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.0 inches; the year adds up to 48.8 inches over 82 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 51% of the year's precipitation (24.8 of 48.8 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 52 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); a normal September there has highs of 75°F and 3.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 10 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 89 nights a year. Snowfall averages 25.5 inches a year, most of it in February. That 48.8 inches is more than at 115 of the 137 New York stations used on this site (84%). Uniondale, 2 miles north, has its own station (Mineola, NY): 45.4 inches a year, 3.4 less than here, and a July average high of 87°F against 82°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Kings Point, NY, 13 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, 13 miles from Roosevelt, 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 338 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Roosevelt: 168 thunderstorm wind reports, 138 flash floods, 16 floods and 16 lightning strikes. They killed 2 people and injured 28, and the NWS estimated $15.0 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on June 2, 2000. August has had the most flash floods, 53 of 138. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 695 have had fewer than Roosevelt.

Flood insurance policyholders in Roosevelt's ZIP code 11575 have filed 14 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $55,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 7% 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, 57 have fewer than Roosevelt.