In anticipation of this winter weather activity, NYCEM has already activated the City’s Winter Weather Emergency Plan. This entails bolstering staffing and conducting calls with the weather service, city and state agencies and utility partners for the sake of coordination.

After days of balmy weather, New York City is slated to get buried in snow and then hit with an arctic blast expected to unleash a potentially life-threatening chill. With a frigid polar vortex set to grip huge swaths of the U.