Winter Weather in Northern Nassau, New York

Winter Weather January 10, 2014 · Northern Nassau, New York

Injuries

What the National Weather Service wrote

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.

The wider storm

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 497203. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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