Barely dug out from its first blizzard in a decade (and a fresh coating just a day later), NYC is, somehow, expected to receive even more snow by the end of this week.
March will roll in with yet another weather system on Sunday morning, bringing in at least a dusting, at most, hopefully, not much more than that, to parts of the five boroughs, according to the National Weather Service, which has provided forecasts seemingly intentionally designed to aggravate and injure collective morale ever since that bomb cyclone decided to detonate. It would be almost tolerable if the most brutal New York winter this side of De Blasio’s first term weren’t just upped to historic levels of annoying with that poke of an extra inch or two less than a day after the Blizzard of ’26 died down, and if there weren’t already an inexplicably high chance of additional accumulation in the week ahead.
Beyond Sunday, there is a consistent opportunity to see more white along our battered streets and sidewalks from next Wednesday through the first full weekend of March, which, for now, is promising to deliver some of the warmest temperatures we’ve seen in the city for months, with highs potentially cracking the 50-degree mark next weekend. But, as we saw with this past week’s meteorological developments, that could change pretty quick, and we pray for the sanity of each and every one of you should the weather take that most unfortunate turn towards villainy.
It does appear, however, that Mayor Mamdani learned from the late-January storm that brought nearly a foot of snow to parts of the city, and has figured out how to respond if things do get ugly. In the clean-up effort for the blizzard, Mamdani worked with the Department of Sanitation to deploy plows and emergency snow shovelers, who have been hard at work clearing sidewalks, streets, and bus stops across the city. Paid volunteers were offered a starting rate of $30 per hour ($45 per hour for anyone clocking in any overtime) and shuttled around the city Sunday night as the storm intensified, no doubt contributing to the expeditious tidying we saw in the wake of the storm, which only made waking up to another inch the next morning that much more antagonizing.
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