Power Outage in Binghamton, NY

Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto powerlines.

Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and powerlines on Route 79.

Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and power lines on Ticknor Brook Road.

Snow accumulated 6 to 15 inches. The heavy snow caused trees and powers lines to fall, resulting in approximately 27,465 customers without power.

Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree on power lines.

Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a power line on Mills Avenue.

Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees on Powers Road.

A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over a tree and power lines in vicinity of June Street and Birdsall Street.

A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over power line poles and wires.

A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees and power lines. This thunderstorm also hit a transformer by lightning.

A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in a trees being knocked over on power lines and power line poles snapped on River road.

Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees down on power lines on lower stella ireland road.

Numerous trees and power-lines were knocked down due to high winds. 20,669 customers were without power.

Trees and power lines were blown down along Airport Road.

Trees and power lines were blown down along Airport Road.

Power lines were blown down on East Maine Road near Commercial Drive.

Trees and power lines were blown down.

Trees were blown down on State Route 41 and Old Route 17. Power was out to 600 customers.

Trees and power lines were blown down across Route 79.

A large tree was blown down with power outages occurring.

High winds occurred across the region with gusts between 50 and 60 mph. Numerous trees were blown down and scattered power outages were reported.

Numerous trees were blown down and power outages were reported across the majority of the county.

Multiple trees and power lines were blown down closing several roads.

A high tension power line was knocked down over interstate 81.

Thunderstorm winds caused numerous trees and wires to come down on North Street in the town of Triangle. A few minutes later in the Chenango Valley State Park numerous trees were downed and uprooted. At the park several close calls occurred when limbs and trees fell on cars and campers. Also at the park the golf course had to be closed for one day to remove fallen trees and limbs. Ten miles of park hiking trails were closed for about a week when 60 to 80 trees along the outer trail. More than 1000 people were spending the holiday in the Chenango Valley State Park when the storm hit. 1400 electric customers lost power due to downed lines.

Trees and power lines down countywide including Vestal and Binghamton.

Tree fell and snapped two utility poles on Howard Avenue on the east side of Binghamton. 15 electric customers were affected. Also 50 other customer in Whitney Point and Greene (in Chenango County) had power interruptions.

A cold front swept across Central New York after midnight on the 12th. This front helped push out the rain showers from remnants of Tropical System Nicole. However, a line of storms and gusty winds were observed along the front edge of this front. A few reports of downed trees and power lines occurred in Broome and Chenango Counties.

A line of storms developed along a cold front that swept through Central New York. While winds were gusty, most gusts were below severe criteria. Some stronger gusts were observed in Broome County where power lines and a transformer were damaged.

A late-season winter storm impacted Central New York in mid-April. Snow-to-liquid ratios were low resulting in heavy snowfall. Snowfall totals exceeded a foot in some locations. The heavy snow brought down trees and powerlines resulting in widespread power outages. The entries approximate the number of customers without power using pweroutage.us with data being valid in the morning of the 19th. At one point, over 100,000 customers in the state of New York were without power. The full extent of damage from the storm is unknown but damage values were estimated on the approximate number of customers without power in each county.

A cold front passed through Central New York during the afternoon and evening hours, triggering thunderstorms. Many of these storms became severe with winds being the main threat. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down by these storms. There was also minor damage to personal property.

A strong low pressure system moved from the Ohio Valley to the East Coast and reformed as a powerful nor'easter while moving into New England. This provided the region with several hours of moderate to heavy rainfall. In addition to significant flash flooding around the area, widespread minor to moderate river flooding occurred on many of the larger, main stem rivers and their tributaries.

A line of showers and thunderstorms moved through portions of Central New York during the afternoon of the 25th ahead of a cold front. Some of these storms became severe and produced mainly tree and powerline damage.

A shortwave trough moved though the Southern Tier of New York during the afternoon of the 24th. This sparked scattered showers and thunderstorms across the area. One particular segment of storms in Tioga and Broome counties became severe and produced some tree and powerline damage.

A line of thunderstorms moved into Central New York ahead of a cold front during the afternoon and evening of the 29th. Some of these storms became severe with damaging winds and produced mainly tree and power line damage.

A line of showers and thunderstorms developed across Central New York during the afternoon of the 13th ahead of an approaching strong cold front. Some of these storms became severe and caused mainly tree and power line damage.

On Monday afternoon and evening, October 28th, 2008, a frontal system stalled across the eastern seaboard, with an area of light rain across eastern New York State. A wave of low pressure began to organize along this front just off the New Jersey coast early Tuesday morning. This low pressure system rapidly intensified into a major early season winter storm as it crawled up the Hudson River Valley Tuesday and Tuesday evening. As a result, a widespread area of heavy precipitation spread across most of central and eastern New York by Tuesday morning. Northerly winds developed, which drew down colder air and resulted in a changeover to snow late Monday night over the highest elevations, with snow levels dropping to around 1500 feet in upstate New York and to around 1000 feet in the Catskills by late Tuesday morning. ||Locations above 1500 feet in the Catskills received 1 to 2 feet of heavy wet snow. Roxbury, NY at 2500 feet received 25.6 inches of snow. Across elevations between 1000 and 1500 feet in the Catskills, snowfall ranged from 2 to 6 inches. In central New York, above 1500 feet, snowfall ranged from 2 to 8 inches, with up to a foot of snow in Oneida and Madison counties. ||Very strong northwest winds developed across central New York behind this storm. Winds gusts ranged from 40 to 50 mph in most places. In areas where there was heavy wet snow, major damage was done to trees and power lines leading to widespread power outages.

The first significant storm of the winter started with mixed precipitation that changed to snow the morning of the 5th. During the afternoon, there was a lull followed by more snow that night. The snow changed back to freezing rain then rain during the day on the 6th. Snowfall amounts were mostly 4 to 8 inches with up to a quarter of an inch of ice. Sullivan County was the hardest hit with 6 to 12 inches of snow followed by a quarter inch of ice. This caused isolated power outages. The snow and freezing rain caused numerous traffic accidents and school closings both days.

A low pressure system in Mississippi, New Year's Eve, moved northeast to the Tennessee/North Carolina border the morning of the 1st. The storm then picked up speed to be in northeast Pennsylvania the evening of New Year's Day. The next morning it was off the coast of Maine. A cold front with rain passed southeast of the area New Year's Eve. This allowed a north to northeast wind to set up at the surface which brought in cold air during most of the 1st. Precipitation well ahead of the storm started around 10 AM on the 1st. Precipitation started as mostly rain but as colder air moved in the rain began to freeze. The freezing rain was heavy at times in the evening before ending in the early morning of the 2nd. Ice amounts were the thickest at the higher elevations with mostly a quarter to a half inch. There were a fewer higher amounts reported. Melted precipitation amounts were an inch or more. The ice caused trees and wires to come down. Around 15,000 customers lost power in the area. The hardest hit area with 2,000 customers without power was northern Broome County and southern Cortland County. The ice remained on the trees and wires through the January 3rd snowstorm causing more wires to come down.

A cold front went through central New York the morning of May 17th. A surface low pressure area moved east across the Tennessee Valley on the 17th to the mid Atlantic region early on the 18th. Precipitation in the form of rain was spread east and north ahead of the surface low on the 17th. The rain over central New York changed to wet snow from west to east starting late on the 17th. Accumulations were mostly over 1500 feet in elevation with up to 5 inches above 2000 feet in the Catskills. For the Binghamton Regional Airport it was the greatest snowfall so late in the season. 1.7 inches fell at the airport which is at about 1600 feet. The snow caused tree limbs and wires to come down. The hardest hit area for power outages was around Stamford in Delaware County. Much of this area is over 2000 feet in the Catskills.

A slow moving strong surface low brought abundant moisture into the area on the 26th. That morning the surface low was in West Virginia. That evening the low was near Erie, Pennsylvania with a warm front in Pennsylvania. The low continued moving northeast to be in Maine the morning of the 27th. The storm brought rain to valleys but freezing rain to the higher elevations of the affected area. Total rainfall was one inch to two and a half inches. Temperatures of the air and the surface were both near freezing so the amounts of freezing rain were only up to an inch. During the afternoon, some locations rose to and above freezing only to fall back below freezing late in the afternoon and early evening. Trees and wires were downed by the weight of the ice. More than 10,000 residents lost power. across the six county area. Over 1,000 residents still had no power two days later on the afternoon of the 28th.