Cuomo credited National Grid for quickly responding to a major snow storm shortly after he took office in 2011.
Wales has faced major disruption since snow first fell last Friday and left homes without power, and disruption to trains and buses.
Army units have also been deployed to help clear the snow on major motorways.
More than 100 drivers were left stranded in South Yorkshire as heavy snow caused major disruption across the region.
Officials in Wyoming and South Dakota closed portions of major highways as blowing snow decreased visibility and freezing rain made roads treacherous.
Heavy snow has caused major disruption to the Isle of Man.
BBC: Isle of Man snow causes travel disruption and power cuts
But while trains have resumed, road conditions in France remain difficult as snow has turned major motorways into ice traps, French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said.
Many major roads are being affected by snow, with parts of the M4 and M50 closed for a time.
One of the keys to the season was that there was snow during all the major holiday periods, she said.
But it was kind of goofy, having snow like that on a major league baseball field.
Numerous accidents were reported in the area, and Mayor Sly James declared the emergency in an unwanted encore to a major snowstorm that dumped nearly a foot of snow on his city just five days earlier.
Kent Police said the volume of snow in exposed areas had been a "major issue".
This relatively minor shift, the model found, still produces enough energy to initiate a wave-like pulse of crystal-shattering snow separation that quickly propagates uphill and leads to a major release of the upper layer.
Today in Heilongjiang, the capital, Harbin, hosts the annual Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, where the delicately-crafted ice lanterns are a major highlight.
All major trunk roads in Wales are now open for the Easter holiday weekend after frozen snow was cleared.
In north Wales, snow which has hardened in freezing temperatures has led to a number of major road closures.
Snow fell in many areas earlier on Wednesday making driving conditions difficult, but major routes were open.
Major routes have been treated, but the A1 north of Alnwick was badly affected by snow and ice.
"A little snow doesn't scare me, " said Leeann Rivera, 43, stocking up at the only major grocery store still open in the Sandy-ravaged Far Rockaway section of Queens.
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