While the Tampa Bay area has not seen any of that severe winter weather, flights coming in and out of TPA are being affected.
TAMPA, Fla. — A massive winter storm impacting the majority of the U.S. is causing travel issues nationwide, including at Tampa International Airport.
More than 15,000 flights have been canceled across the U.S. since Saturday, according to flight-tracking site FlightAware. About 11,000 of those were scheduled for Sunday with about the same number of delays.
While the Tampa Bay area has not seen any of that severe winter weather, flights coming in and out of TPA are being affected.
Here’s how flights are looking at TPA, as of 11:20 a.m. Sunday.
TPA flight delays and cancellations
186 cancellations
58 delays
Total flights: 524
Flight tracker: Which airports are seeing delays
Winter storm impacts across the US
A massive winter storm continued Sunday, dumping sleet, freezing rain and snow across the South and up through New England, bringing frigid temperatures, widespread power outages and treacherous road conditions.
The ice and snowfall were expected to continue through Monday in much of the country, followed by very low temperatures, causing “dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts” to linger for several days, the National Weather Service said.
Heavy snow was forecast from the Ohio Valley to the Northeast, while “catastrophic ice accumulation” threatened from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
“It is a unique storm in the sense that it is so widespread,” weather service meteorologist Allison Santorelli said in a phone interview. “It was affecting areas all the way from New Mexico, Texas, all the way into New England, so we’re talking like a 2,000 mile spread.”
As of Sunday morning, about 213 million people were under some sort of winter weather warning, she said. The number of customers without power topped 800,000, according to poweroutage.us, and the number was rising.
TEGNA Digital, Thomas Peipert, Jeff Amy and Dave Collins contributed to this story.