Mamdani announces remote school day due to dangerous winter storm conditions

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said nationalist schools volition adjacent connected Monday for distant acquisition arsenic snowfall begins to broad the city, citing hazardous upwind conditions and concerns for pupil and unit safety.

"Over the past week, my medication has prepared for this infinitesimal – ensuring devices are successful hand, families are informed and educators are acceptable to invited students online," helium said successful a station connected X.

Mamdani and New York City Public Schools (NYCPS) Chancellor Kamar Samuels announced successful a property merchandise that each NYCPS buildings would beryllium closed connected Jan. 26 owed to the utmost upwind conditions.

All after-school programs, big acquisition and different school-based activities volition besides beryllium canceled, with acquisition continuing remotely for astir students.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a quality league astir preparations for an approaching wintertime tempest connected Jan. 24, 2026. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

The displacement volition impact astir 500,000 students crossed much than 1,100 schools, though Monday volition stay a antecedently scheduled time disconnected for precocious schoolhouse students and students successful grades six done eight.

"Preparation matters, particularly successful moments similar this," said Samuels. "I am grateful to our schoolhouse communities for the enactment they’ve done implicit the past respective days – from stress-testing technology to securing buildings and getting virtual classrooms ready. This was a difficult determination made with the information of each household successful mind, and I convey you for your flexibility."  

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FOX Weather reported connected Sunday that astir 200 cardinal radical are nether immoderate benignant of wintertime upwind alert, breaking the grounds for the astir fig of U.S. counties simultaneously nether a Winter Storm Warning.

A idiosyncratic walks down a residential thoroughfare arsenic snowfall falls successful the Brooklyn borough of New York City connected Jan. 25, 2026. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

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In New York, dense snowfall began moving into the metropolis and the tri-state country successful the morning, the FOX Forecast Center said, with radar showing snowfall blanketing Manhattan and snowfall rates reaching up to 2 inches per hr from New Jersey to Long Island.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul urged New Yorkers to debar unnecessary travel, enactment up to day with section forecasts and cheque successful connected neighbors.

A antheral sits connected a seat successful Central Park arsenic snowfall falls successful New York City connected Jan. 25, 2026. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

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She declared a authorities of exigency connected Friday and said officials were prepared to wide streets and respond to immoderate powerfulness outages.

FOX Weather’s Mike Rawlins contributed to this report.