{"id":441107,"date":"2026-02-23T11:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441107\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:07:09","slug":"more-than-5000-flights-cancelled-as-major-snow-storm-blasts-us-north-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441107\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 5,000 flights cancelled as major snow storm blasts US north-east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people under blizzard watch as historic winter storm hits US northeastpublished at 08:19 GMT<\/p>\n<p>08:19 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"view of people standing on an outdoor subway platform as heavy snow falls\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5d06611f-c5f3-4027-8adb-481fbce9a39d.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1021\" height=\"574\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A major snowstorm \u2014 expected to be the worst in nearly a decade \u2014 started slamming parts of the East Coast of the US on Sunday. It\u2019s expected to continue into Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Around 40 million people are under blizzard warnings, including in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, and Long Island, while another 19 million are facing winter storm warnings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut are among the areas under states of emergency, with up to 24 inches of snow expected to fall in parts of the region, according to the National Weather Service. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As of midnight local time (05:00 GMT) on Monday, much of the north-east had already been blanketed in several inches of snow &#8211; with 10 inches reported in parts of New York and New Jersey. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has issued a travel ban, meaning only essential vehicles are allowed on roads and bridges throughout the five boroughs, from 21:00 local time Sunday through 12:00 Monday. All schools in the city will be closed on Monday too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands of flights have already been cancelled, and officials are warning that any travel will be dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;ll be bringing you all the updates here &#8211; stick with us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millions of people under blizzard watch as historic winter storm hits US northeastpublished at 08:19 GMT 08:19 GMT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-441107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}