|Based on a report by the NYC Medical Examiner's Office, hypothermia, was a direct cause of at least 11 fatalities during and after this period of extreme cold in New York City.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
The episode as NWS OKX wrote it up.
An arctic air mass caused subfreezing temperatures across the local area for 5 consecutive days; from February 4th through February 8th.|During this time, the daily mean temperature averaged nearly 15 degrees below normal.|Based on a report by the NYC Medical Examiner's Office, hypothermia, was a direct cause of at least 11 fatalities during and after this period of extreme cold in New York City.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 3, 9:12 PM EST, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
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4 extreme cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Kings (Brooklyn) | 2007-02-08 | 80 | Female | Unknown | Direct |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Kings (Brooklyn) | 2007-02-15 | 54 | Male | Unknown | Direct |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Kings (Brooklyn) | 2007-02-04 | 84 | Female | Permanent Structure | Direct |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Queens | 2007-02-05 | 77 | Male | Unknown | Direct |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Queens | 2007-02-07 | 49 | Male | Unknown | Direct |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Queens | 2007-02-10 | 60 | Male | Unknown | Direct |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Queens | 2007-02-22 | 82 | Female | Unknown | Direct |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Bronx | 2007-02-05 | 47 | Male | Unknown | Direct |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Bronx | 2007-02-05 | 60 | Male | Unknown | Direct |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Bronx | 2007-02-09 | 22 | Male | Unknown | Direct |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, New York (Manhattan) | 2007-02-28 | 78 | Male | Unknown | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New York in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, February 2007
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 14173, 14175, 19116, 19117.