Check ahead with your airline again today if you’re flying out of Palm Beach International Airport, as there are several cancellations on the flight boards this morning with regard to departures, but even more when you check on the arrivals. These are for flights that were supposed to arrive later in the day, so we expect the cancellations among the departures to grow with nearly 7,000 cancelled flights nationwide in the past three days. There were more than 1,100 cancellations today alone, by the time the show wrapped up this morning. Many of the flights being affected are to and from airports in the New York City area, Boston and Philadelphia.
Here’s more on the winter storm’s effects up north:
East Coast residents are bracing for a deep freeze a day after a massive winter storm slammed the region with heavy snow, hurricane-force winds and coastal flooding. Forecasters predict that record-breaking cold air and strong winds will set people's teeth chattering from the mid-Atlantic to New England Friday and that the frigid weather will hang around through the weekend.
The storm began two days ago in the Gulf of Mexico and first struck the Florida Panhandle. By Thursday, it was wreaking havoc as blizzard warnings and states of emergency went into effect along the Eastern Seaboard. Wind gusts hit more than 70 mph in places and some areas saw as much as 18 inches of snow.
The storm caused school and business closings, airline and rail service cancellations or reductions and thousands of utilities outages, many of them restored quickly. Some ferry services even had to be shut down along the Canadian coast.