Freeze Watches in New York
165 freeze 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 freeze watches reaches back to 2005.
Freeze Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Freeze Watches
- 165
- Busiest year
- 201220 freeze watches
- Average year
- 8over 21 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.
- Orange County41
- Putnam County37
- Westchester County35
- Cayuga County32
- Suffolk County29
- Rockland County25
- Oneida County23
- Steuben County22
- Chautauqua County21
- Chemung County21
- Cortland County21
- Delaware County21
- Madison County21
- Otsego County21
- Schuyler County21
- Tompkins County21
- Lewis County21
- Allegany County20
- Broome County20
- Cattaraugus County20
- Chenango County20
- Erie County20
- Tioga County20
- Livingston County19
- Onondaga County19
- Ontario County18
- Oswego County18
- Sullivan County18
- Genesee County17
- Seneca County17
- Yates County17
- Jefferson County17
- Bronx County16
- Richmond County16
- Kings County15
- New York County15
- Wyoming County15
- Nassau County15
- Monroe County14
- Orleans County14
22 more counties
- Wayne County14
- Niagara County13
- Queens County12
- Warren County11
- Greene County10
- Ulster County10
- Washington County10
- Albany County9
- Herkimer County9
- Saratoga County9
- Schenectady County9
- Clinton County8
- Franklin County8
- Columbia County8
- Rensselaer County8
- Schoharie County8
- Essex County7
- St. Lawrence County7
- Dutchess County7
- Fulton County7
- Montgomery County7
- Hamilton County4
The latest freeze watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2:19 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | OKX | Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk, Westchester | 24 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:12 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | OKX | Bronx, Nassau, Richmond | 12 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.