The snowstorm of October 4 to 5, 1999

The Regional Snowfall Index is NOAA’s ranking of snowstorms east of the Rockies by how much snow fell, over how wide an area and on how many people, region by region: the area and the population above four snowfall thresholds set for each region, weighted against that region’s own history. A storm is scored in each region it reached, on a scale from 1, notable, to 5, extreme.

Events

21

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Damage

$87,000

Episodes

11

Every winter weather episode the Weather Service filed east of the Rockies in these dates. A few may belong to another system on the same days. 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.

• Winter Weather in New York, October 4, 19992 eventsDuring the early morning hours of October 4, a low pressure area tracked through the Ohio Valley, then along the Pennsylvania New York border.
• Winter Weather in New York, October 4, 1999$40,000 · 4 eventsA weak area of low pressure moved along a frontal boundary from Pennsylvania across southern New England during Monday, October 4th. Rain changed to wet snow. Accumulations ranged widely from a dusting up to 4 inches.
• Winter Weather in New York, October 4, 1999$20,000 · 2 eventsA weak area of low pressure moved along a frontal boundary from Pennsylvania across southern New England during Monday, October 4th. Rain changed to wet snow. Accumulations were generally 1 to 3 inches but locally higher in the mountains.
• Winter Weather in New Hampshire, October 4, 19992 eventsLow pressure moving eastward through the mid-Atlantic States brought an early season snowfall to the higher terrain in northern New Hampshire. Up to 4 inches of snow fell in the area.
• Cold in Wisconsin, October 4, 19991 eventThe low temperature at Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay was 25 degrees. This tied the record low for October 4th that was set in 1989.
• Winter Weather in Vermont, October 4, 1999$5,000 · 1 eventA weak area of low pressure moved along a frontal boundary from Pennsylvania across southern New England during Monday, October 4th. Rain changed to wet snow. Accumulations were generally 1 to 3 inches.
• Winter Weather in Vermont, October 4, 1999$5,000 · 1 eventA weak area of low pressure moved along a frontal boundary from Pennsylvania across southern New England during Monday, October 4th. Rain changed to wet snow. Accumulations were generally 1 to 3 inches.
• Winter Weather in Vermont, October 4, 1999$5,000 · 1 eventA weak area of low pressure moved along a frontal boundary from Pennsylvania across southern New England during Monday, October 4th. Rain changed to wet snow. Accumulations across the higher terrain were 1 to 2 inches.
• Winter Weather in Maine, October 4, 19993 eventsLow pressure moving eastward through the mid-Atlantic States brought an early season snowfall to the northwestern slopes of the Maine Mountains. Up to 5 inches of snow fell in the area. The wet snow caused trees and tree limbs to fall and caused several accidents.
• Winter Weather in Vermont, October 4, 1999$2,000 · 2 eventsA weak area of low pressure moved along a frontal boundary from Pennsylvania across southern New England during Monday, October 4th. Rain changed to wet snow. Accumulations were generally 1 to 3 inches in the mountains with scattered power outages.
• Winter Weather in Vermont, October 4, 1999$10,000 · 2 eventsA weak area of low pressure moved along a frontal boundary from Pennsylvania across southern New England during Monday, October 4th. Rain changed to wet snow. Accumulations in the higher terrain were generally 1 to 2 inches.

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NOAA NCEI Regional Snowfall Index, and the Storm Events Database for the episodes.