Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Sea Cliff, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Mineola, NY, 8 miles south of Sea Cliff 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%). East Norwich, 6 miles east, has its own station (Centerport, NY): 48.5 inches a year, 3.1 more than here, and a July average high of 83°F against 87°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Kings Point, NY, 7 miles west, 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, 7 miles from Sea Cliff, 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 330 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Sea Cliff: 179 thunderstorm wind reports, 115 flash floods, 25 floods and 11 lightning strikes. They killed 5 people and injured 34, and the NWS estimated $27.6 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, 41 of 115. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 671 have had fewer than Sea Cliff.

Flood insurance policyholders in Sea Cliff's ZIP code 11579 have filed 44 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $400,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 61% 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, 260 have fewer than Sea Cliff.