On this day in Western New York weather history …
- 1960 – Temperatures averaged 15 degrees above normal from the 1st to the 5th. Larger creeks like the Tonawanda and the Ellicott went into flood stages. The former set an all-time high stage of 16.95 feet at Rapids, in northern Erie county. Many roads were closed and families stranded by high waters.
- 1962 – A general snowstorm dropped two to eleven inches of snow over western New York. Snowfall at the Airport totaled 2.7 inches establishing a new record for the maximum snowfall for this date.
- 1993 – 1st-5th Flooding on area creeks and streams continued from March through the first week of April as a result of additional rain and snowmelt. It was the worst flooding since Hurricane Agnes in 1972. Many streams rose above their banks and caused road flooding–among them Oatka, Black and Tonawanda Creeks. The Genesee River, which is regulated by the Mount Morris Dam, just reached flood stage at Avon in spite of all the gates of the dam being closed. The dam used 85% of its storage capacity before the gates were reopened on the 5th. Although it was too early to produce any crop damage, planting was delayed as farmers waited for fields to dry out.
Sources: New York weather data from the National Weather Service in Buffalo, NY
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1 Marlene Grant // Jun 15, 2009 at 2:38 pm
I would like to know what the weather was like on Saturday, June 13th, 2009 for Western and Central New York. Were there downpours in the Phelps, Savannah, Canandaigua area in the late afternoon, early evening?
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