{"id":141337,"date":"2026-02-21T23:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141337\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T23:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:38:12","slug":"new-york-state-of-emergency-kathy-hochul-issues-alert-for-22-counties-amid-blizzard-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141337\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State of Emergency: Kathy Hochul issues alert for 22 counties amid blizzard warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathy Hochul has declared a state of emergency for New York as the state faces an extended blizzard warning. The emergency order covers 22 counties statewide.<\/p>\n

\"KathyKathy Hochul, governor of New York, has declared a state of emergency for New York. (Bloomberg)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one to take seriously. A blizzard can truly paralyze an entire region,\u201d the governor warned on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Hochul also urged residents along the shores of Long Island to evacuate if possible.<\/p>\n

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Blizzard warning<\/p>\n

A blizzard warning is in effect from 1 p.m. Sunday to 6 p.m. Monday across Long Island, New York City, Westchester County and the Hudson Valley.<\/p>\n

Snowfall forecast<\/p>\n

According to the National Weather Service, snowfall totals across New York are expected to range between 13 and 17 inches from Sunday through Monday.<\/p>\n

Forecasters note there is a slight chance that some areas could see higher accumulations of 23 to 24 inches.<\/p>\n

Coastal flooding<\/p>\n

Widespread coastal flooding will be possible between Sunday night and Monday morning, particularly along Jamaica Bay, Staten Island, the Battery, and parts of the Bronx and northern Queens.<\/p>\n

Coney Island, Massapequa, Sayville, Westhampton and Montauk could also be hit.<\/p>\n

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Zohran Mamdani responds<\/p>\n

Zohran Mamdani said New York City<\/a> would expand on efforts it used to deal with a major snowfall weeks ago. However, officials have not yet decided whether public schools will open Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw on Friday there was expectation that the likelihood was that we were going to face maybe 3 to 4 inches of snow. Quickly that then changed,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cSo we want to make sure that we make a decision based on up-to-date and accurate information.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kathy Hochul has declared a state of emergency for New York as the state faces an extended blizzard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6372,9,59589,11,10,59590,49,51,50,59586,59588,59587],"class_list":{"0":"post-141337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-kathy","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-coastal-looding","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-new-york-snowfall-forecast","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-state-news","17":"tag-new-york-state-of-emergency","18":"tag-ny-blizzard-warning","19":"tag-ny-state-of-emergency-today"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141337","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=141337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}