2,300+ flights canceled Tuesday; Austin airport close

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Pehal News Team 0 Comments

The distress introduced on by Monday’s record-breaking winter storm continues to create havoc for vacationers within the South, particularly in Texas.

Austin Bergstrom International Airport introduced that it has canceled all arriving and departing flights for Tuesday. Meanwhile, each Houston airports, George Bush Intercontinental and William P. Hobby, stay closed till a minimum of noon. Dallas Fort Worth International and Nashville International Airport stay open however each warning that they anticipated extra flights to be canceled or delayed Tuesday.

DFW led all the world in cancellations and flight delays as of 8:30 EST on Tuesday morning, adopted by Houston Bush Intercontinental. Nationwide, there have been already greater than 2,300 flight cancellations and close to 300 delays, according to FlightAware.com. Hobby, Austin, and Nashville had been additionally within the prime 10 worldwide. Dallas-based Southwest had essentially the most cancellations of any airline on this planet, adopted by Fort Worth-based American.

Meanwhile, almost 4 million houses and companies had been with out energy early Tuesday in Texas, the place temperatures dipped into the only digits in a single day.

And though snow has ceased falling in Nashville, roads all through Middle Tennessee stay “hazardous,” the National Weather Service mentioned.

It’s going to be fairly slick once more,” Brenden Schaper, a meteorologist with the NWS in Nashville, said Monday night. “Road circumstances by means of (Tuesday) will nonetheless be fairly treacherous, so take it straightforward in case you have to be on the roads.”

At least six people in four states died as a result of the winter storm since the weekend.

The “large” winter storm was forecast to continue moving across the Midwest and Northeast, bringing snow, sleet and freezing rain Tuesday, and another winter storm was expected to reach south-central U.S. with snow and ice, the National Weather Service said.

As of Tuesday morning, only American and United Airlines, which both have a massive presence in the Lonestar State, still had active flight waivers. American’s is effective through Wednesday and covers 22 destinations in Texas and Oklahoma while United’s covers travel in and out of Houston through Thursday.