Power Outage in Middletown, NY

Two trees down on Fostertown Road near Route 9W. Three intersections with no power along Route 9W.

Numerous trees down into wires, almost entire city without power.

A peak wind gust of 51 mph was recorded at the Stewart Airport AWOS at 420pm LST, 50 mph at the NYC mesonet station in Warwick at 110 pm LST, and a 45 mph wind gust at the Montgomery Airport AWOS at 346 pm LST. In addition, 1 to 5 inches of rainfall, highest west, were recorded across the county. These type of winds and saturated grounds across the county resulted in numerous trees and tree limbs being downed, power outages, damages to homes and automobiles, and disruption to transit.

Trained spotters, CoCoRaHS, and the public reported 4 to 6 inches of snow. A trained spotter also reported 0.4 inches of ice accretion in Newburgh, and the Montgomery Airport ASOS reported 0.27 inches of ice accretion. The combination of snow and ice created hazardous travel conditions along with downed tree limbs and power lines.

Trained spotters reported 1 to 2 feet of snow across the county. The highest totals were in Monroe and Highland Mills with 26.0 and 24.3 inches respectively. The heavy wet snow combined with gusty winds to bring down tree limbs and some power lines.

Trees and power lines were reported down.

Widespread tree damage and power outages occurred due to 8 to 16 inches of heavy wet snow. The heavier amounts fell in the higher elevations. Specifically, in Warwick and Goshen numerous tree limbs were reported down by the afternoon of the 29th. In Blooming Grove, a tree was reported down on a car on Village Road. around 4 pm EST as well. In Slate Hill, Ridgebury Road between Country Road 12 and Greeves Road was closed for several hours due to numerous downed trees.

Strong winds combined with heavy rain downed numerous trees and power lines across Orange County causing around a thousand power outages.

Strong winds downed trees and tree limbs and caused scattered power outages. Around 11 am EDT, police said that a tree fell on a moving car travelling west on Route 17A in Warwick. A man and woman suffered minor injuries when their car overturned. Orange and Rockland Utilities reported power outages in the town of Tuxedo.

Multiple trees and power lines down in Clarkstown.

Power lines were downed in Harriman State Park.

Trees and power lines.

An area of low pressure formed along the Southeast Atlantic coast on Tuesday December 10th. On Wednesday, December 11th, this storm moved northeast along a track that hugged the east coast. This storm passed by the New York Metropolitan area on the night of December 11th into the 12th, before moving to the Canadian Maritimes during the day on Thursday, December 12th. The proximity of the track of the storm allowed relatively warm air from the Atlantic Ocean to move onshore along the coast, which resulted in most of the precipitation falling as a liquid. However, over inland locations a shallow layer of cold air froze this liquid on contact with the ground, which resulted in a significant ice storm.Light precipitation started to fall during the early afternoon on Wednesday, December 11th, in the form of a mix of sleet and freezing rain. This light mix continued until around 7 pm, when the precipitation turned to snow and became heavy. This heavy burst of snow lasted between 60 and 90 minutes, was accompanied by lightning and resulted in quick snowfall accumulations of between 2 and 3 inches. By 9 pm, the precipitation changed back to freezing rain, which continued until about 4 am the next morning. Local cooperative observers reported a storm total liquid equivalent of between 1.0 and 1.5 inches, which accumulated as snow or ice. This wintry mix resulted in numerous vehicular accidents due to ice covered roads and several downed trees and power lines.

Deepening low pressure tracking from the southeast United States on Saturday January 19, 2019 to the northeast on Sunday January 20, 2019. An arctic air mass was located across New England as the storm system approached the region. A warm front associated with the low moved north along the coast early on the morning of January 20 changing moderate to locally heavy snow to sleet and then liquid precipitation. The warmer air battled the arctic air advecting into the Lower Hudson Valley from the north. However, temperatures remained below freezing through much of the winter storm across the Lower Hudson Valley creating a significant ice accretion on top of snow accumulation. Trees and power lines were brought down due to the ice along with power outages across many towns.

Low pressure over the eastern Gulf of Mexico on the evening of December 10, tracked northeast and up into the Carolinas by the following evening of December 11. In response to a strong upper trough approaching from the west, a secondary low developed along the Mid Atlantic coast during the evening and rapidly deepened overnight. By the following morning, the low had deepened to an estimated 994 mb, just to the south and east of Montauk Point. A transient high over eastern Canada provided enough cold air across northern portions of the Lower Hudson Valley for a prolonged period of freezing rain during the late morning hours of December 11 through the early morning hours of December 12. Thereafter, enough warm air worked in for a complete changeover to rain with several inches of rainfall.||Automated observations in tandem with pictures from trained spotters supported ice accumulations around one half inch across the northern half of Orange county. ||At 0800EST, there was a major automobile accident on the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge in Orange County with eight injuries. There were also scattered reports of trees and power lines down with the American Red Cross opening a shelter in Central Valley the following day.

Severe thunderstorms produced high winds that downed many trees and power lines throughout Putnam County, about 5 miles northeast of Jamaica, Queens, in Tottenville on Staten Island, and in Bay Ridge in Brooklyn.

A spotter reported that severe thunderstorm winds knocked numerous trees down in Ridgebury, Warwick, Goshen, and Newburgh. This resulted in downed power lines and an interruption in service for about 36,000 electricity customers. In Mongaup Valley, a 50 foot pine tree was snapped in two and fell across a yard.

As a line of thunderstorms swept east across the region, scattered severe thunderstorms produced high winds that downed many trees onto power lines at several locations including Greenville, Middletown, and Warwick.

On Tuesday, August 28th, a cold front moved southeast across portions of southeast New York. Strong thunderstorms developed along and in advance of this front, producing strong gusty winds and frequent cloud to ground lightning as they moved southeast across portions of Orange County. Scattered power outages resulted from these thunderstorms, as winds toppled tree limbs onto power lines. Areas hardest hit included Port Jervis, Greenville, Greenwood Lake and Middletown.

With cold air in place at the surface, as warmer air moved northeast and gradually rose above this cold dome of air, snow developed around 4 am, changed to sleet around 5 am then freezing rain by 6 am. By 8:30 am, up to 1/4-inch of ice accumulated on roads, trees, and power lines. Freezing rain ended as temperatures rose above 32 degrees by around 11 am. Total ice accumulations ranged from 1/4 to 1/3-inch, which resulted in some power outages. In Middletown, a blown transformer on Wawayanda Avenue, near the Mount Carmel School, took out power in much of downtown. Several minor traffic accidents were reported along Route 17 in Orange County.