{"id":139039,"date":"2026-01-31T20:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139039\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:16:09","slug":"south-florida-airports-see-hundreds-of-delays-dozens-of-cancellation-as-winter-storm-gianna-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139039\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida airports see hundreds of delays, dozens of cancellation as Winter Storm Gianna hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0January 31, 2026 at 3:02 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LBLZBKNXNJF25CR42XGDPNGDBI.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Winter Storm Gianna caused widespread flight disruptions at South Florida airports saturday, prompting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/weather\/2026\/01\/31\/rare-arctic-cold-front-brings-rain-cold-weather-advisory-to-south-florida\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/weather\/2026\/01\/31\/rare-arctic-cold-front-brings-rain-cold-weather-advisory-to-south-florida\/\">cold weather advisory<\/a> as delays and cancellations mounted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of 2:15 p.m., Miami International Airport reported 212 delays affecting flights within, into, or out of the United States. A total of 49 flights had been canceled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport also experienced significant impacts, reporting 128 delays and 39 cancellations by midafternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iflymia\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iflymia\">post on X Saturday afternoon<\/a>, MIA officials urged travelers to check their flight status with airlines before heading to the airport. Officials also warned of record low temperatures expected Sunday, advising employees and travelers to dress warmly and allow extra travel time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThank you for your patience as we navigate these weather-related challenges,\u201d the post stated. \u201cStay safe and stay informed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Passengers traveling through South Florida airports are encouraged to monitor airline updates by visiting flightaware.com as winter weather continues to affect operations nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0January 31, 2026 at 3:02 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand MIAMI \u2014 Winter Storm Gianna caused widespread flight disruptions at South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-139039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}