The site said Southwest Airlines had 1,253 cancellations - nearly a third of its scheduled flights and about five times as many as any other major U.S. On Monday, some 2,085 domestic and international flights were cancelled as of about noon ET, according to the tracking site FlightAware.
population faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning, as temperatures plummeted drastically below normal from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians. In the meantime, the recovery work continues. About 60 per cent of the U.S. "Nothing like what we had last week," he said, adding the bomb cyclone - when atmospheric pressure drops quickly in a strong storm - has weakened. to slowly rise, said Ashton Robinson Cook, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. There may be some relief this week from the extreme weather, which has stretched from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico, as forecasts are calling for temperatures in the U.S. "But are the dice a little bit loaded now? Absolutely."
Victor Gensini, a meteorology professor at Northern Illinois University, likened a single weather event to an "at-bat" in baseball - and the climate as your "batting average." That's because the atmosphere can carry more water vapour, which acts as fuel, said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Scientists said that the warming earth may have contributed to the intensity of the storm. The storm is expected to claim more lives because it trapped some residents inside houses and knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses. Hundreds of Canadians stranded for days in Mexico after Sunwing cancellations.At least 34 dead as millions hunker down from frigid U.S.
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