Winter Storm Fern live updates: snow and ice batter east coast | US weather
So far, more than 10,000 flights have been canceledwith up to 15,000 cancellations possible until Monday. Today will go down in history as one of the days with the highest number of weather-related flight cancellations in American aviation history.
Cancellations include all flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and most flights at Philadelphia International Airport. Thousands of flights from New York’s major airports, LaGuardia, JFK and Newark, were also canceled.
Power outages across the country have already climbed to nearly 900,000 according to PowerOutage.us, a giant leap from Saturday, when the number stood at around 85,000.
Tennessee is currently seeing the highest number of outages, with more than 300,000 homes and businesses affected.
Outages in Mississippi and Texas totaled more than 130,000. Louisiana is approaching 125,000 outages.
After spending most of Saturday across the Midwest and southern United States, Winter Storm Fern headed northeast early Sunday morning. The DC area is expected to receive 5 to 9 inches of snow from this massive storm.
Here’s a look at the snow-covered U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.
Dangerous Hello and welcome to our live blog covering the winter storm system currently moving across much of the United States. My name is Marina Dunbar and I will bring you the latest news.
Winter Storm Fern continues to batter much of the country, dumping snow, sleet and freezing rain. Freezing temperatures, power outages and dangerous road conditions were commonplace. Ice and snowfall is expected to continue through Monday across much of the country, followed by very low temperatures, causing “dangerous impacts to travel and infrastructure” for several days, the National Weather Service said.
