Winter Weather — Northern Nassau, New York

2014-01-10 · Northern Nassau, 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.

From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., 129 patients were transported to area hospitals, 61 of them by Nassau County police ambulance and 68 by fire department ambulance.

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 497203. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.