Thousands of flights are canceled or delayed Monday morning as a result of Winter Storm Blair. The storm, according to The Weather Channel, is dumping snow and ice across the mid-Atlantic and Midwest. FlightAware’s data shows that there are over 1,600 canceled flights within, into or out of the U.S. with another 2,600-plus delayed (although not all of these can be directly correlated with Blair).
As a result, airports across the entire U.S., including in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, St. Louis, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis, Boston, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Houston, Atlanta, Denver and New York have hundreds of cancelations or delays each. Southwest is leading the airline cohort with 367 canceled and 470 delayed flights. Regional airlines Republic Airways and PSA Airlines also have over 170 cancelations each, with American topping 183 and 367 cancelations and delays, respectively.
Amtrak has also adjusted service to dozens of train routes in the Northeast and Midwest. Two are already canceled for Tuesday (between Richmond and Washington and Norfolk and Washington).
The National Weather Service (NWS) is reporting more than three feet of snow near Buffalo, NY, with eight inches or more ranging from Colorado, through Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and Virginia into Maryland. Beyond the snow, the NWS is expecting blizzard conditions (including 40 mph winds) in the Central Plains Monday and “damaging ice” across the Mid-South.
More than 10,000 residents in Texas, Missouri, Illinois and Florida are without power, while that number rises to 50,000-plus or Kentucky and West Virginia and 100,000-plus for Virginia, according to Poweroutage.us.
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