3,500+ flights canceled Monday; Houston airports close
A winter storm pummeled the Midwest and South Monday, closing each of Houston’s airports and racking up greater than 3,500 canceled flights.
In a Monday afternoon tweet, George Bush Intercontinental Airport introduced it could be closed till a minimum of 1 p.m. CST Tuesday and requested vacationers to keep away from the airport. It was the same story at William P. Hobby, which stated it could close until noon on Tuesday. At Dallas-Fort Worth International, icy circumstances resulted in inbound flights being held and the shutdown of the airport’s Skylink light-rail system as a result of ice and low temperatures.
More than 150 million folks had been below a winter storm warning, winter climate advisory or ice storm warning in 25 states, stretching over 2,000 miles from southern Texas to northern Maine, the National Weather Service said.
Power outages had been widespread Monday. In Texas alone, greater than 2.5 million clients had been at nighttime as of two p.m. native time, based on power outage.us, a utility monitoring website.
The NWS predicted heavy snow and vital ice accumulations from Tennessee and Ohio Valleys to the Northeast and stated that “frigid Arctic air and dangerously cold wind” would persist within the Great Plains and Mississippi Valley by means of midweek.
“This impressive onslaught of wicked wintry weather across much of the Lower 48 is due to the combination of strong Arctic high pressure supplying sub-freezing temperatures and an active storm track escorting waves of precipitation from coast-to-coast,” the National Weather Service explained in its alert.
As of three:30 p.m. EST, FlightAware had reported more than 3,500 canceled flights throughout the nation for Monday and greater than 3,800 delays. Nearly 1,600 cancellations are predicted for Tuesday. Dallas-Fort Worth Intercontinental led the worldwide listing of airports with probably the most cancellations and Dallas-based Southwest had probably the most cancellations of any provider.
Southwest was one among a number of airways to challenge climate waivers to stop passengers and planes from turning into stranded. Though the coated locations and dates differ, most embody many of the main airports in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas.
Flights weren’t the one transportation impacted. The ice in Houston contributed to nearly 120 crashes had been reported Sunday, together with a 10-car pileup on I-45, Samuel Peña, town’s hearth chief, tweeted.
“Folks please know the slush you see on our roadways will refreeze soon and driving will be more treacherous than last night,” Police Chief Art Acevedo pleaded in a tweet Monday afternoon. “Please avoid travel as temperatures drop and roadways ice.”
American Airlines
Dates coated: Feb. 15-17
Destinations coated: 21, together with Dallas, Houston and Austin in Texas and Oklahoma City and Tulsa in Oklahoma
Details: https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/travel-alerts.jsp
Delta Air Lines
Dates coated: Feb. 15
Destinations coated: 16, together with main Texas and Oklahoma airports in addition to New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Shreveport in Louisiana and Little Rock, Arkansas
Details: https://www.delta.com/us/en/advisories/weather-alerts/southern-and-central-plains-winter-weather
Frontier Airlines
Dates coated: Feb. 15
Destinations coated: 10, together with Denver and Colorado Springs in addition to the main airports in Texas and Louisiana
Details: https://www.flyfrontier.com/alert/?mobile=true
JetBlue Airways
Dates coated: Feb. 15
Destinations coated: Austin, Dallas and Houston
Details: https://www.jetblue.com/travel-alerts
Southwest Airlines
Dates coated: Feb. 15
Destinations coated: 22, together with most main Texas and Oklahoma airports in addition to Nashville and Memphis in Tennessee; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Louisville, Kentucky
Details: https://www.southwest.com/html/advisories/swa_travel_advisory_20211121613166659852.html
United Airlines
Dates coated: Feb. 15-16
Destinations coated: United has issued 4 totally different waivers. The first covers Denver journey for Monday solely. The second covers journey on Monday and Tuesday for 24 locations all through Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Indiana in addition to western Pennsylvania and New York. The third covers journey out and in of Houston for Monday. The fourth covers Monday journey out of 32 totally different cities, together with most of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas.
Details: https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/travel/notices.html
Contributing: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY; Associated Press
