Excessive Heat in New York, December 1 to 7, 2001

Name: Excessive Heat in New York, December 1 to 7, 2001
Start: 2001-12-01T00:00
End: 2001-12-07T23:59
Location: New York

December 1 to 7, 2001 · NWS ALY · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 excessive heat, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

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Event by event

1 excessive heat. Local standard time, as filed.

Excessive Heat, Eastern Albany

When: December 1, 12:00 AM EST to December 7, 11:59 PM EST
Where: Eastern Albany forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 42.600, -73.974 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A Bermuda like high brought unseasonably mild conditions to eastern New York and adjacent Western New England during the first week of December. During the first 7 days of the month, the official maximum temperature at Albany reached at least 50 or higher on every day, which had never happened before in the 127 year history of record keeping. During those 7 days, two record high temperatures were established, 65 on the 5th and 68 on the 6th. The average mean temperature during the first week was 16.1 degrees above normal!

What these are

Excessive Heat: Heat at or above the local excessive heat warning criteria, or heat that caused deaths.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in New York in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in New York, December 2001

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5274600.