New York, 2025

Ice Storm and Winter Storm in New York, March 28 to 30, 2025

March 28 to 30, 2025 · NWS BTV · 9 events in 9 counties and zones

A weak wave of low pressure developed and traveled along a stationary front draped across northern NY and VT during the evening of March 28th and continuing into the 29th. Snowfall amounts ranged from several inches across southern portions of northern NY to a half foot or more in the northern sections along the Canadian border.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 9 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over this ground

The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
9

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 BTV wrote it up.

A weak wave of low pressure developed and traveled along a stationary front draped across northern NY and VT during the evening of March 28th and continuing into the 29th. Snowfall amounts ranged from several inches across southern portions of northern NY to a half foot or more in the northern sections along the Canadian border. Meanwhile across the southern tier there was mixed winter precipitation, including freezing rain and icing that accumulated upwards of an half inch in some locations. Power outages across northern NY were around 5000.

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 Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 28, 7:00 PM EST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 7:00 PM EST, 0 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 28, 2:22 PM EST, 4 hours 38 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

7 winter storm, 2 ice storm. Local standard time, as filed.

Winter Storm, Eastern Clinton

When
March 28, 7:00 PM EST to March 29, 8:00 AM EST
Where
Eastern Clinton forecast zone
Reported by
CoCoRaHS
Coordinates
44.746, -73.678 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Snowfall totals across the area were 5 to 10 inches.

Winter Storm, Western Clinton

When
March 28, 7:00 PM EST to March 29, 8:00 AM EST
Where
Western Clinton forecast zone
Reported by
CoCoRaHS
Coordinates
44.746, -73.678 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Snowfall totals across the area were 5 to 10 inches.

Winter Storm, Northern Franklin

When
March 28, 7:00 PM EST to March 29, 8:00 AM EST
Where
Northern Franklin forecast zone
Reported by
CoCoRaHS
Coordinates
44.593, -74.304 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Snowfall totals across the area were 5 to 10 inches.

Winter Storm, Northern St. Lawrence

When
March 28, 7:00 PM EST to March 29, 8:00 AM EST
Where
Northern St. Lawrence forecast zone
Reported by
CoCoRaHS
Coordinates
44.501, -75.116 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Snowfall totals across the area were 5 to 10 inches.

Winter Storm, Eastern Essex

When
March 28, 7:00 PM EST to March 30, 8:00 AM EST
Where
Eastern Essex forecast zone
Reported by
CoCoRaHS
Coordinates
44.117, -73.773 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Snowfall totals across the area were 2 to 5 inches combined with ice accumulations of 1/3 to 1/2 inch flat.

Winter Storm, Southern Franklin

When
March 28, 7:00 PM EST to March 30, 8:00 AM EST
Where
Southern Franklin forecast zone
Reported by
CoCoRaHS
Coordinates
44.593, -74.304 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Snowfall totals across the area were 2 to 5 inches combined with ice accumulations of 1/3 to 1/2 inch flat.

Winter Storm, Western Essex

When
March 28, 7:00 PM EST to March 30, 8:00 AM EST
Where
Western Essex forecast zone
Reported by
CoCoRaHS
Coordinates
44.117, -73.773 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Snowfall totals across the area were 2 to 5 inches combined with ice accumulations of around 1/2 inch flat ice.

Ice Storm, Southwestern St. Lawrence

When
March 29, 7:00 PM EST to March 30, 7:00 AM EST
Where
Southwestern St. Lawrence forecast zone
Reported by
CoCoRaHS
Coordinates
44.501, -75.116 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A few inches of snow combined with ice accumulations up to an half inch or slightly higher of flat ice.

Ice Storm, Southeastern St. Lawrence

When
March 29, 7:00 PM EST to March 30, 7:00 AM EST
Where
Southeastern St. Lawrence forecast zone
Reported by
CoCoRaHS
Coordinates
44.501, -75.116 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A few inches of snow combined with ice accumulations up to an half inch or slightly higher of flat ice.

What these are

Winter Storm
A storm that brought snow, sleet or freezing rain at warning levels, usually over several hours or days.
Ice Storm
Freezing rain accumulating a quarter inch or more of ice, or less where it caused significant damage.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in New York in 2025Every state in 2025This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, March 2025

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: 1233583, 1233584, 1233585, 1233586, 1233587, 1233588, 1250944, 1233590, 1233591.