2700+ Flights Canceled As Winter Storm Hits US East

January 16, 2022 Travel, Weather

Reuters reports:

Airlines canceled over 2,800 U.S. flights on Sunday as a winter storm combining high winds and ice was poised to hit the U.S. East Coast over the holiday weekend.

The flights canceled by 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on Sunday included over 2,800 entering, departing from or within the United States, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.com. Over 1,900 flights were delayed, the data showed.

American Airlines Group Inc had over 600 flight cancellations. Almost 95% of the flights out of Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, an American Airlines hub, were canceled, the FlightAware website showed.

CNN reports:

President Biden was briefed this morning on “extreme weather forecasts for today and their projected impacts,” a White House official said, as a major winter storm, including snow, freezing rain and ice is hitting a large portion of the eastern United States.

Over 80 million people are under winter weather alerts across the eastern United States today, from the South to New England.

Earlier today, the president and First Lady Jill Biden traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to pack food boxes at anti-hunger nonprofit Philabundance ahead of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of service tomorrow. The President is now back at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. Back in Washington, flurries have started to fall at the White House.

USA Today reports:

The storm, dubbed a “Saskatchewan screamer” because it originated in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, left over a foot of snow in Des Moines, Iowa, over the weekend. The Ozarks town of Canaan in Arkansas also saw a foot of snow.

The storm was expected to head into the Northeast while dropping snow, sleet and rain around the densely populated Eastern Seaboard. Washington, D.C., was forecast to see up to 3 inches of snow followed by a round of ice. Parts of the metro area already saw more snow in one week this month than in the last two years.

Parts of Western Pennsylvania could get a foot of snow, forecasters said. And officials across New England warned residents to stay indoors on Saturday as a blast of Arctic air drives wind chill temperatures as low as minus 35 degrees

The New York Times reports:

A strong winter storm brought heavy snow to parts of the Southeast on Sunday and was expected to leave about a foot of snow in parts of the Northeast, knocking out power to tens of thousands of customers as dangerous ice coated highways in the Carolinas.

In the South, where some governors declared states of emergency on Friday, areas such as central Mississippi and central North Carolina had already received more than nine inches of snow, while portions of Tennessee and Alabama received a mixture of snow and freezing rain, the National Weather Service said.

“This storm is going to be pretty significant in terms of generating travel impacts, outages and things of that nature,” said Rich Otto, a meteorologist with the Weather Service.

The New York Post reports:



Snow will begin falling in the New York area around 7 p.m. as a storm travels from the southern region of the country, Accuweather senior meteorologist Todd Kines told The Post.

“It’s creating havoc in the South and it’ll continue to create havoc as it heads toward our neck of the woods,” Kines said Sunday. “For those that are going into work tomorrow, it could be a rough point with the rain and the wind,” he said of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Sunday also urged New Yorkers to stay off the road to avoid getting stranded — a situation seen earlier this month in Virginia, where motorists were trapped on roadways for more than 24 hours during a severe winter storm.

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