Ahead of Hurricane Idalia, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has declared a State of Emergency to activate the state’s emergency operations plan.
Flight tracking website FlightAware shows that the Southwest Airlines schedule is the most affected, with 143 cancellations. United, Delta and American Airlines are also impacted.
All eyes are on the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Idalia approaches the Florida coast. Idalia, the 9th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.
Weather-related flight cancellations and delays that snarled U.S. commercial air traffic over the holiday weekend dragged on through Monday, with Southwest Airlines accounting for the bulk of the lingering disruptions a day after Christmas.
Concerns about illness or inflation aren’t stopping Americans from hitting the roads and airports this holiday season. But a massive winter storm might.
Cuba had slowly begun to restore power across the eastern end of the island, the state electricity provider said early on Wednesday.