{"id":2617,"date":"2026-01-26T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:56:09","slug":"mamdani-roasted-for-idiotic-and-moronic-warning-on-nyc-snowstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=2617","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani roasted for \u2018idiotic and moronic\u2019 warning on NYC snowstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For some, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has already failed when it comes to what is traditionally a big test for New York City mayors: dealing with a major snowstorm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The new mayor is getting roasted online after issuing a warning about the massive snow event that\u2019s coming this weekend,\u00a0the New York Post reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cNYC is forecasted to get 3\u201316 inches of snow this weekend. And we\u2019re ready,\u201d Mamdani wrote on X on Thursday afternoon as part of a post on the city\u2019s prep for the storm.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mb-4\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=YahooNews&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfdGltZWxpbmVfbGlzdCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOltdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2ZvbGxvd2VyX2NvdW50X3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9iYWNrZW5kIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19yZWZzcmNfc2Vzc2lvbiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZm9zbnJfc29mdF9pbnRlcnZlbnRpb25zX2VuYWJsZWQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib24iLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X21peGVkX21lZGlhXzE1ODk3Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRyZWF0bWVudCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3Nob3dfYmlyZHdhdGNoX3Bpdm90c19lbmFibGVkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19kdXBsaWNhdGVfc2NyaWJlc190b19zZXR0aW5ncyI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdXNlX3Byb2ZpbGVfaW1hZ2Vfc2hhcGVfZW5hYmxlZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdmlkZW9faGxzX2R5bmFtaWNfbWFuaWZlc3RzXzE1MDgyIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRydWVfYml0cmF0ZSIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfbGVnYWN5X3RpbWVsaW5lX3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9mcm9udGVuZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=2014452716622512500&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.silive.com%2Fpolitics%2F2026%2F01%2Fmamdani-roasted-for-idiotic-and-moronic-warning-on-nyc-snowstorm.html&amp;sessionId=d2cf20614c15dc85b6133d58e3c81c6323905831&amp;siteScreenName=YahooNews&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"2014452716622512500\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201c3-16, way to narrow down the forecast,\u201d one user on X commented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSaying that NYC is going to get between 3 and 16 inches of snow is nonsense,\u201d another said. \u201cThat tells you absolutely nothing. Citing numbers with a probability range of 5% to 95% is idiotic and moronic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cMaybe they forgot the 1 in front of the 3? Idk?\u201d said another snarky commenter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Post said that the five boroughs were already under a winter storm watch, issued by the National Weather Service, calling for 6-12 inches of snow when Mamdani posted his statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Current forecasts call for anywhere from 8-14 inches of snow to fall on the city this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York City mayors in the past have been lambasted for poor reactions to snowstorms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mayor Bill de Blasio was scorched in 2014 when Islanders railed that plows and salters were slow to the rescue after a big snowstorm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mayor John Lindsay got clobbered when the city was slow to react to a 1969 snowstorm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">And Mayor Michael Bloomberg took a pounding when the city flubbed the 2010 Christmas blizzard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That was the year that Bloomberg pushed back against critics who said that the city was slow to react to the storm, saying that \u201cThe city is going fine. Broadway shows were full last night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on\u00a0silive.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has already failed when it comes to what is traditionally a big test<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-us"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}