Part of Long Island saw its largest snowfall in recorded history Monday.
The National Weather Service recorded 29.1 inches of snow at the Islip Airport in Suffolk County as of 1 p.m. — preliminarily beating the town’s previous record of around 27 inches from 2013.
First responders at the scene of an overturned snow plow on Sunrise Highway during the winter storm. Bay Shore FDMonday’s high was the most snow to fall in the town since records were first kept in 1963.
Most of Long Island is now buried under 20 to 30 inches — with some other municipalities poised to potentially break records, too.
Winds hit 80 mph and snow erased streets, turned blocks into waist-deep trenches, swallowed cars and transformed once-busy roads into silent, snow-packed corridors.
The National Weather Service is expected to release further updates as they measure the impact throughout the island.
A travel ban sign seen on the Long Island Expressway in Queens on Feb. 23, 2026. REUTERSBut Long Islanders didn’t need an accounting of the snowfall to tell them the region was rocked to its core, with the sheer amount of snow simply causing chaos.
Conditions were so bad that in Bay Shore, a massive snow plow overturned in the middle of the storm response, while another plow in Rocky Point had to be towed after getting disabled in mountains of snow while trying to clear buried streets, according to officials.
Conditions were so bad that in Bay Shore, a massive snow plow overturned in the middle of the storm response.
Suffolk County police also responded to nearly 150 car accidents by 1 p.m. — despite a clear travel ban in all of Suffolk, Nassau County and New York City.
“It has been crazy,” exhausted first responder Dennison DeNatalie told The Post.
And he wasn’t the only Long Islander left feeling shell-shocked.
First responders on scene in Bay Shore for the overturned plow on Sunrise Highway.
“It’s nuts, I don’t think I’ve ever seen this much snow in my life, and it’s still going,” David Duran of Bay Shore said as he shoveled out his vehicle during the extra afternoon snowfall.
“I literally just shoveled my car out maybe 20 minutes ago, when I came back out, it was like I had done nothing at all,” he added.
But as rough as their days were going, more than 42,000 homes had it worse — losing power as temperatures neared the negatives before quickly restoring power to most, according to a statement from PSE&G.
And officials warned its not over yet, with plummeting overnight temperatures expected to turn the thick sheets of snow into craters of ice and refreeze already the treacherous roads before more snow is expected to blast the region later this week.
