More than 200 flights canceled, as travelers to and from Northeast watch the weather
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — So far, the storms that have moved into the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast haven’t caused the kind of travel problems that had been feared on the day before Thanksgiving.
More than 230 flights have been canceled, according to the air tracking website FlightAware.com. Most of them were in and out of three major Northeast hubs — Philadelphia, Newark, and New York’s LaGuardia — and the delays and cancellations haven’t been rippling out to other parts of the nation’s air network.
Meanwhile, forecasters say the storm is going to start to loosen its grip on the East Coast as the day wears on.
Still, it’s meant some anxious moments for travelers trying to get two and from the Northeast. One college freshman waiting at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for a flight to New York was checking the weather in New York on her smartphone.
Some of the longest delays have been affecting flights headed for Philadelphia. According to FlightAware.com, they were held up at their points of origin for an average of about two hours this morning because of the weather.
A large area of rain is spreading over the Northeast, and it’s expected to gradually move out into the Atlantic as the day wears on. Wind is also a concern, and parts of southeastern New England have been under a high-wind warning today.
A residual band of snow behind the storm stretched this morning from western Pennsylvania to West Virginia.
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201-a-09-(Matt Bassett, train traveler from Philadelphia, in AP interview at 30th Street Station)-’’so, fingers crossed’’-Train traveler Matt Bassett says he’s heading to Massachusetts for the holiday, despite the weather. (27 Nov 2013)
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200-a-10-(Emma Kelsey, train traveler, in AP interview at 30th Street Station)-’’go to Absecon’’-Train traveler Emma Kelsey says it will take her a while, but she’s heading home for the holiday to New Jersey from Washington, D.C. (27 Nov 2013)
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APPHOTO NYSW103: Airline employees work in the rain at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. Bands of ice, sleet and rain were upending some Thanksgiving holiday plans as millions of Americans took to the roads, skies and rails Wednesday, likely the busiest travel day of the year. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (27 Nov 2013)
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APPHOTO ILMG107: Phyllis Dolinko, 80, of Chicago, checks her travel itinerary to New York Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013, at O’Hare International airport in Chicago. While the morning commute at O’Hare is running smoothly, a wall of storms packing ice, sleet and rain heading for the east coast and the north east could upend holiday travel plans as millions of Americans take to the roads, skies and rails Wednesday for Thanksgiving. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) (27 Nov 2013)
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