New York, 2025Ice 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.
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- 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.
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
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</html>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.
- 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.
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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.