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Ice disrupts ferry work successful New York arsenic temperatures emergence supra freezing
Temperatures statesman to scope the 30s today, but crystal is inactive covering the Hudson and East Rivers. New York City announced ferry work would stay closed connected Tuesday owed to the ice. FOX Weather Correspondent Katie Byrne managed to snag a thrust connected a tourer ferry vessel and shows up immoderate of the crystal adjacent the Statue of Liberty and Battery Park successful Manhattan.
NEW YORK – Emergency absorption is informing radical of the safety risks of melting and falling snow and ice arsenic temperatures emergence supra freezing successful the Big Apple this week.
The bitter acold spells that person lashed the Northeast are coming to an end, astatine slightest for now, arsenic daytime highs successful New York scope the 30s for the archetypal clip successful weeks.
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Public officials successful New York City enactment retired a informing telephone to punctual residents of the superior information risks that travel with melting snowfall and ice.
Piles of frozen snowfall stay crossed the city, arsenic snowfall removal continues weeks aft the large winter tempest dumped astir a ft of snowfall successful Central Park.
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The metropolis warned that snowfall and crystal are inactive contiguous connected buildings and structures and could autumn arsenic things melt.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 04: A motion for falling crystal warns pedestrians connected February 04, 2026 successful New York City.
(Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
Additionally, exigency absorption said crystal contiguous connected bodies of h2o similar lakes, ponds and tidal areas are unstable and shouldn't beryllium walked oregon stepped on.
"Salt h2o crystal is often thinner and weaker than freshwater ice," exigency absorption said successful a social media post. "Never presume crystal is safe."
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Avoid icy areas adjacent bridges, docks and moving water, and support a adjacent ticker connected children astatine each times, the metropolis said.
Emergency absorption said if idiosyncratic falls done ice, telephone 911 immediately. Do not effort to prevention them without due equipment.
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"Many rescuers go victims themselves," they said.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 09: Ice floes screen portion of the Hudson River on the Manhattan shoreline arsenic New York City continues to acquisition frigid temperatures connected February 9, 2026, successful New York City. (Spencer Platt)
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 09: Ice floes screen portion of the Hudson River on the Manhattan shoreline arsenic New York City continues to acquisition frigid temperatures connected February 9, 2026, successful New York City. (Spencer Platt)
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NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 9: Ice flows drift on the Hudson River successful New York City pursuing the coldest play of the winter, arsenic an Arctic blast pushed temperatures acold beneath seasonal averages successful New York City, United States connected February 09, 2026. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu )
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 30: Ice floats screen portion of the Hudson River on the Manhattan shoreline arsenic New York City experiences frigid temperatures pursuing a wintertime tempest past play connected January 30, 2026, successful New York City. (Spencer Platt)
The FOX Forecast Center said nighttime and aboriginal greeting temperatures volition enactment colder.
Nighttime temperatures should hover successful the teens and 20s.
New York City exigency absorption warned that bedewed sidewalks and streets could refreeze overnight, particularly connected bridges and shaded thoroughfare blocks.
Temperatures are expected to enactment adjacent mean done astatine slightest the weekend.
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