{"id":435587,"date":"2026-01-27T03:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/435587\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T03:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:14:12","slug":"severe-winter-storm-in-eastern-canada-impacts-flights-in-and-out-of-edmonton-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/435587\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe winter storm in Eastern Canada impacts flights in and out of Edmonton &#8211; Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Passengers trying to get in and out of Alberta and head to Eastern Canada haven\u2019t been having much luck.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Some travellers have now spent an extra few days in Edmonton waiting for clear skies.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/edmonton-international-airport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton International Airport<\/a> (YEG) on Monday, the arrivals and departures board was filled with flights that had been delayed or cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>This time, though, it wasn\u2019t due to the weather here in Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>Severe winter conditions hit Ontario and the East Coast hard, with heavy snow and freezing temperatures. That\u2019s having a trickle-down impact on people trying to fly in or out of YEG the past few days.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>YEG says the severe weather continues to impact flights at the airport. Over the past three days, 23 arrivals and 25 departures have been cancelled due to weather disruptions in other parts of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Carling Marlok\u2019s family was in town visiting some relatives. To get back to Toronto and head home, they\u2019ll now have to change their destination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife spent about two hours on the phone with Porter, trying to get rebooked to see if we could get home any earlier,\u201d said Carling Marlok.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11638398\/ryan-wedding-court-appearance\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ryan-Wedding.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRyan Wedding pleads not guilty to murder, drug trafficking charges in U.S.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11637252\/minnesota-alex-pretti-death-us-state-officials-immigration\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769483651_585_991516d2786ee4425ca8b74154b5bd8cf540b9c13f7064a73b63ef79df17ee0d.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tU.S. federal, Minnesota officials offer starkly different messages on Alex Pretti\u2019s death\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThankfully, there\u2019s a flight to Hamilton \u2014 a little bit more of an inconvenience, but as long as we get home today I think we\u2019ll be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Click the video above for more on the cancellations and delays in Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Snow clearing efforts continue at Toronto Pearson Airport, delays expected'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5P_PEARSON_DELAYS_KING-PKG_STILL.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:43<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSnow clearing efforts continue at Toronto Pearson Airport, delays expected\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Passengers trying to get in and out of Alberta and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,180953,44,1133,141244,174757],"class_list":["post-435587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton-international-airport","tag-news","tag-weather","tag-winter-storm","tag-yeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}