Overview
- New York City’s state of emergency includes a citywide ban on non‑essential vehicles from 9 p.m. Sunday to noon Monday, and public schools will observe the first full snow day since 2019.
- The National Weather Service forecasts 1–2 feet of snow with peak rates of 2–3 inches per hour, gusts strong enough to down trees and power lines, and coastal flooding risks from Delaware to Cape Cod.
- Air travel has been heavily disrupted with thousands of flights canceled and more preemptive cancellations for Monday, while NJ Transit halted multiple services and the MTA shifted most subway lines to local service and deployed de‑icer and snow trains.
- City operations include 2,600 sanitation workers on 12‑hour shifts, 700 salt spreaders and thousands of plows, increased FDNY staffing, and expanded warming resources under Code Blue protocols.
- States of emergency and additional travel restrictions are in effect across the region—including New Jersey, Delaware, and New York counties such as Suffolk and Westchester—as officials caution that blizzard conditions will make travel extremely treacherous and could trigger widespread outages.