Snowstorms delay USA East Coast air travel
A report in The New York Times says that snow overnight gave way to rain on Sunday in the New York City area, even as much of the Northeast was hit by snowstorms that delayed air travel and caused traffic accidents.
Central Park received 1 inch of snow overnight, according to the National Weather Service’s Upton office on Long Island, as areas north and west received more. Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, for example, reported 2.2 inches, said Joe Pollina, a meteorologist with the weather service. Clinton, in Middlesex County, Connecticut, got 2.5 inches.
The wind might be more of a problem, Mr. Pollina said, as gusts reach up to 45 miles per hour. Mr. Pallino said he expected the rain to continue for a few more hours, and then the temperatures will drop below freezing again tonight.
“It will refreeze everything,” he said. “Motorists need to be careful on the roads that haven’t been treated, and if you’re walking, be careful because ice will form again later tonight.
Meanwhile, a powerful northeaster is pounding parts of the Northeast and Great Lakes with heavy snow, ice, rain and howling winds, and Accuweather.com said it would be followed Monday by cold air that would spread from the Midwest to the Deep South.
“The combination of stubborn cold air and moisture wrapping around the storm is producing heavy snow from the central Great Lakes into the interior Northeast, while gusty winds will create areas of blowing and drifting snow,” the Accuweather said on its Web site said.
The National Weather Service had posted winter storm warnings overnight from Michigan to Maine, where snow, sleet and freezing rain have already contributed to two deaths, The Associated Press reported.
But the news was not so bad in some parts of the Northeast. In Washington, the weather service canceled its winter weather advisory late last night for Prince George’s and Anne Arundel counties and parts of Virginia south of the District of Columbia, when the mercury rose above freezing.
“The big cities are dodging the bullet,” John Feerick, a meteorologist at Accuweather, told Bloomberg News.
But flight delays and cancellations at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago had a residual effect on air travel elsewhere, because many flights go through O’Hare.
Some 200 flights were canceled out of Chicago on Saturday.
Logan International Airport in Boston reported few problems on Saturday, but Sunday morning more than 100 flights were canceled or delayed because of heavy snow, freezing fog and wind gusts as high as 37 miles per hour.
Some flights out of New York City’s three major airports reported delays of up to an hour for arrivals and two hours for departures to and from Chicago.
An estimated 103,000 customers were without power Sunday morning in parts of Pennsylvania, utility companies told The A.P.
Slippery roads were blamed for the deaths of a 24-year-old woman in a three-vehicle crash in Michigan and a 51-year-old woman in a two-car wreck in Wisconsin.
A report by The Mole and the New York Times
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