United States cancels 3,000 flights for new winter storm

Washington, United States.

More than 4,000 flightss suffered delays and near 3000 were canceled in the blizzard and rain that hits this Wednesday much of the east coast of the United States and that has left its effects in Washington, New York and New Jersey.

According to the website flightaware.com, which follows flightsuntil noon (local time), there were 4,033 delays and 2,138 cancellations throughout the country.

At the airport Washington Dulles – where take-off delays took a little over an hour on average -, 79 deferrals and 237 cancellations were recorded. Ronald Reagan, on the outskirts of the capital, there were 152 delayed flights and 360 flights Canceled

Also the airport Baltimore-Washington in the state of Maryland228 cancellations and 91 delays were recorded.

The web said that the The airport of Newark, in a state of New sweater and that it's serving New York, He suffered delays of about three hours and 55 minutes of arrival and about 30 minutes of departure.

Also the terminals John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia They suffered landing delays of about two hours and 20 minutes.

Local media reported that around 117 million people they are in a state of alert for the weather conditions.

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The National Meteorological Service of United States (NWS, in English) noted Wednesday on Twitter that the heavy rain and the winter climate will affect much of the east until Thursday and indicates that others are expected snowfall in the west.

Along the east coast and its surroundings, several centimeters of the snow which started falling on Tuesday night and will stay Wednesday.

According to the NWS, it is foreseeable that storm He sweeps the area this Friday, but it's likely that a new one will wear heavy rain more south-east.

Between the end of January and the beginning of the month, a wave of extreme cold badped United States with temperatures reaching 39 degrees below zero and a thermal sensation of -45 in the west-central regions of the country and caused at least 21 EFE deaths