Winter Weather — Southeast Suffolk, New York

2014-01-10 · Southeast Suffolk, New York

Event narrative

Newsday reports that ice-coated roadways caused dozens of motor-vehicle accidents and filled hospital emergency rooms with weather-related injuries. In a two-hour span, Suffolk reported 600 ambulance calls. There were at least 250 vehicle crashes and also 300 calls for help, which exclude car accidents but counts slip and falls and medical emergencies, such as heart attacks.

Wider weather episode

Warm air overriding a stationary front to the south with cold Arctic high pressure in place combined to produce freezing rain across parts of southeast New York, especially Long Island.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 497200. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.