NEW YORK (WABC) -- A Winter Storm Warning has been issued for New York City and the Tri-State as a powerful winter storm gets set to spread snow, heavy at times, and dangerous ice in our area for much of Sunday and lingering into early Monday.

What a cold call! Mayor Zohran Mamdani is telling New York City kids to forget about a traditional snow day on Monday — no matter how devastating the forecast is. Public school students can at best hope for remote classes for early next week as the city braces for a potentially devastating storm that the mayor has already said could dump more than a foot of snow across the Big Apple.

Half the U.S. population will likely see some effect from the sprawling storm that will move across the country this weekend, meteorologists said.