DSNY Issues Winter Operations Advisory for Sat., Feb. 14 at 1 a.m.
February 13, 2026
New York’s Strongest will be prepared to salt roadways and bike lanes to prevent icy conditions in the overnight hours and allow New Yorkers to enjoy a safe, snowy Valentine's Day
The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) has issued a Winter Operations Advisory for Saturday, February 14, 2026, beginning at 1 a.m. A Winter Operations Advisory is the Department’s “lower level” snow-fighting notification, as opposed to the “higher level” Snow Alert.
A light snowfall is expected to begin after midnight and continue into the early morning. Accumulations of a coating to a half an inch are possible across the city, accompanied by subfreezing temperatures that could lead to icy conditions.
To ensure that this provides New Yorkers with a picturesque Valentine's Day, rather than a dangerous one, more than 700 salt spreaders and specialized bike lane spreaders are filled and ready to go when needed, and the Department has hundreds of millions of pounds of salt on hand. DSNY will monitor and plan salting from its GPS room, featuring the new Bladerunner 2.0 tracking operation. The same Sanitation Workers operating the salt spreaders also collect your trash, recycling, and compostable material, and dispatching hundreds of people to critical snow-fighting operations may slow down collection. Be assured: Collection IS ongoing and New Yorkers should follow their normal schedule, even if material is collected at a different time of day than they are used to.
This weekend’s winter weather operations come as DSNY continues to melt the massive amount of snow that fell Jan. 25. With temperatures below freezing for most of the last three weeks, DSNY has melted more than 400 million pounds of snow at 13 melters in all 5 boroughs.
New Yorkers should know: DSNY is working to ensure your safety. Do your part both for yourself and for the Strongest by staying off the roads during active precipitation or, if you absolutely must drive, by doing so slowly, safely and carefully.
In a snow event, New York City’s Sanitation Workers cover our streets, highways and bike lanes, but all residents should remember that clearing snow from sidewalks is the property owners’ responsibility. Property owners must do their part to make sure that the sidewalks are passable, and DSNY has written more than 4,000 summonses for failure to do so since the Jan. 25 storm.
All winter weather information and information about the City’s response to the storm can be found by visiting the City’s Severe Weather website at nyc.gov/snow or by calling 311.
New Yorkers are also encouraged to sign up for NotifyNYC, the City’s free emergency notification system, available in 14 languages including ASL. Through NotifyNYC, New Yorkers can sign up to receive phone calls, text messages, and email alerts about severe weather events and emergencies. To sign up for NotifyNYC, call 311, visit nyc.gov/notify or follow @NotifyNYC.