Extreme Cold Watches in New York
9 extreme cold watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of extreme cold watches reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Watches
- 9
- Busiest year
- 20269 extreme cold watches
- Average year
- 9over 1 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cayuga County2
- Clinton County2
- Essex County2
- Franklin County2
- Fulton County2
- Hamilton County2
- Herkimer County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lewis County2
- Oneida County2
- Rensselaer County2
- St. Lawrence County2
- Warren County2
- Albany County1
- Allegany County1
- Bronx County1
- Broome County1
- Cattaraugus County1
- Chautauqua County1
- Chemung County1
- Chenango County1
- Columbia County1
- Cortland County1
- Delaware County1
- Dutchess County1
- Erie County1
- Genesee County1
- Greene County1
- Kings County1
- Livingston County1
- Madison County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Nassau County1
- New York County1
- Niagara County1
- Onondaga County1
- Ontario County1
- Orange County1
- Orleans County1
22 more counties
- Oswego County1
- Otsego County1
- Putnam County1
- Queens County1
- Richmond County1
- Rockland County1
- Saratoga County1
- Schenectady County1
- Schoharie County1
- Schuyler County1
- Seneca County1
- Steuben County1
- Suffolk County1
- Sullivan County1
- Tioga County1
- Tompkins County1
- Ulster County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
- Westchester County1
- Wyoming County1
- Yates County1
The latest extreme cold watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 1:03 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | OKX | Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam and 5 more | 13 hr |
| Feb 5, 1:01 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee and 10 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 5, 12:51 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton and 9 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 5, 12:49 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | BGM | Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware and 11 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 5, 12:11 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | BTV | Clinton, Essex, Franklin, St. Lawrence | 24 hr |
| Jan 21, 11:35 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | BGM | Oneida | 13 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:53 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis | 23 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:34 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | BTV | Clinton, Essex, Franklin, St. Lawrence | 24 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:33 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Rensselaer, Warren | 24 hr |
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.