Heavy Snow, Orange
- When
- February 22, 9:00 PM EST to February 24, 8:00 AM EST
- Where
- Orange forecast zone
- Reported by
- Official NWS Observations
- Coordinates
- 41.402, -74.306 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in New York, February 22 to 24, 2010
Low pressure developing off the North Carolina Coast slowly tracked north Monday Night into Wednesday to over eastern Long Island by Wednesday Night. This low pressure system in combination with a strong upper level disturbance brought an extended period of mainly snow mixed with sleet and freezing rain to Orange County Monday Night through Tuesday Night.
Where it happened
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- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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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.
What happened
The episode as NWS OKX wrote it up.
Low pressure developing off the North Carolina Coast slowly tracked north Monday Night into Wednesday to over eastern Long Island by Wednesday Night. This low pressure system in combination with a strong upper level disturbance brought an extended period of mainly snow mixed with sleet and freezing rain to Orange County Monday Night through Tuesday Night. Snowfall amounts ranged from 6.0 inches in Monroe to 11.3 inches in Mount Hope.
What forecasters said that day
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 22, 7:57 PM EST, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 7:57 PM EST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Pennsylvania, February 22 to 24, 2010
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Texas, February 22 to 23, 2010
- Hail and Lightning Strikes in Georgia, February 22, 2010
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, February 22, 2010
- Lightning Strike in Florida, February 22, 2010
- Heavy Snow in Texas, February 22 to 23, 2010
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, February 22, 2010
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in New Jersey, February 22 to 23, 2010
- Heavy Snow in New Mexico, February 22 to 23, 2010
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, February 22, 2010
- Heavy Snow in Arizona, February 22, 2010
- Damaging Wind in Florida, February 22, 2010
More
Every storm in New York in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, February 2010
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 217714.