{"id":111813,"date":"2026-01-25T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/111813\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T12:34:09","slug":"snow-arrives-across-staten-island-as-bitter-cold-settles-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/111813\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow arrives across Staten Island as bitter cold settles in"},"content":{"rendered":"

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.\u2014 Good morning! The snow has started. Flakes began falling at about 5 a.m., and by 6 a.m., snow had accumulated to about a quarter of an inch, as observed in Randall Manor along Henderson Avenue.<\/p>\n

Right now, according to AccuWeather<\/a>, it\u2019s 14 degrees with a RealFeel of 3 degrees. There is a 100 percent chance of snow today<\/a>, and with the cold already biting, we\u2019re beginning to hear about closures and cancellations across Staten Island.<\/p>\n

As you know, I cover food<\/a>, and in that realm I can confirm that Helen Lau has closed Empire East at the Staten Island Mall for the day. As of this morning, the Staten Island Mall itself remains open, though individual store hours may vary.<\/p>\n

Beyond restaurants, church services at St. John\u2019s Lutheran Church on Jewett Avenue have been cancelled. We\u2019re continuing to monitor additional announcements as they come in.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be going live at 9 a.m. from Beans \u2019n\u2019 Leaves Coffee Shop or the King\u2019s Arms Diner in West Brighton, whoever is open. Join me on the SILive.com Facebook page for real\u2011time updates.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, I can confirm that Monsignor Farrell High School will be closed tomorrow, Monday, Jan. 26.<\/p>\n

Please check back here for ongoing updates, and if you have information to share\u2014including closures, delays, or weather conditions in your neighborhood\u2014feel free to reach out. I\u2019ll be on duty throughout the morning and can be reached at silvestri@siadvance.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stay safe and stay in touch. <\/p>\n

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1\/6<\/p>\n

A typical snowy Staten Island day at home, work and play<\/p>\n

In the meantime, for your entertainment\u2014and reading pleasure\u2014here\u2019s a little snowy stroll down memory lane. As a native Staten Islander, I can tell you firsthand: winter here does not play around. Over my (relatively) little lifetime, I\u2019ve seen some truly punishing storms, and Staten Island has endured more than its fair share of historic blizzards that brought daily life to a grinding halt.<\/p>\n

Ask longtime residents about the gold standard for snowstorms, and many will immediately point to the January 7\u20138, 1996 blizzard. Roughly 27 inches of snow fell, burying neighborhoods so fast that plows simply couldn\u2019t keep up. Snowdrifts rose several feet high, transportation shut down for days, and entire blocks vanished beneath car\u2011deep snow. It\u2019s the storm people still compare all others to.<\/p>\n

Nearly a decade later came the February 11\u201312, 2006 blizzard, another heavyweight. Between 20 and 25 inches of snow piled up across the borough, with some areas topping the two\u2011foot mark. The storm set New York City\u2019s all\u2011time single\u2011storm snowfall record and turned Staten Island\u2019s wide residential streets into narrow snow canyons\u2014cars completely swallowed by towering banks.<\/p>\n

More recently, Blizzard Jonas made its mark on January 23\u201324, 2016, dumping about 24 inches of snow on Staten Island as part of the city\u2019s largest official snowfall on record. Cleanup was especially challenging thanks to coastal flooding and emergency travel bans, a reminder that storms here are often intensified by strong winds and shoreline exposure.<\/p>\n

Going back a bit further, the February 12\u201314, 1983 \u201cMegalopolitan Blizzard\u201d dropped roughly 22 inches of snow on Staten Island and caused widespread disruption. Cars were stranded on the Staten Island Expressway, buses stopped running, and entire neighborhoods were effectively frozen in place.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the granddaddy of them all: the Great Blizzard of March 1888. While Staten Island saw about 20 to 21 inches of snow, it was the hurricane\u2011force winds that made the storm legendary. Enormous drifts formed, transportation and communication were crippled for weeks, not days, and the storm was so severe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.\u2014 Good morning! The snow has started. Flakes began falling at about 5 a.m., and by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-111813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}