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- The weather outside is frightful.
- Weather forecasters predict an onslaught of winter storms across the East Coast and the Midwest.
- The bad weather resulted in more than 10,400 flight delays and over 800 cancellations on Sunday.
Bad news: expect more travel chaos this holiday season.
Bad weather during the post-Christmas weekend resulted in more than 11,000 flight delays and 1,000 cancellations within, into, or out of the US on Saturday, according to aircraft tracking website FlightAware.
Trouble persisted on Sunday, with more than 10,400 flight delays and over 800 cancellations, per FlightAware data. Around 900 flights have been delayed and over 300 canceled as of 6:30 a.m. ET Monday.
Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport and Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International saw the highest number of canceled flights in the US on Sunday.
In an update on Monday morning, the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center said a "powerful" winter storm would "continue to deepen" on Monday as it moves into southeastern Canada.
The service also warned that blizzard conditions were likely in parts of the upper Midwest throughout the morning.
"Expect blizzard conditions with considerable blowing and drifting snow, especially in and near the lake effect snow belts, along with dangerous wind chills," it said.
The warnings come after New York City received more than four inches of snowfall on Saturday, the most since January 2022. Photos showed Central Park under a thick blanket of snow.
Airports in the city, including John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia, and Newark Liberty, issued travel advisories on Friday, warning passengers of potential travel disruptions because of poor weather.
The snowstorms come during a peak travel period in the US. The American Automobile Association predicted in a December 10 report that 122.4 million Americans would travel at least 50 miles from home between December 20 and January 1, 2026.
Of these, it said 8.03 million travelers would travel by domestic flights, a 2.3% increase from the same period last year.
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