Overview
- FlightAware reported 1,659 U.S. flight cancellations on Friday, roughly ten times the previous day’s total.
- New York’s three major airports recorded 886 cancellations, and airports urged passengers to verify flight status before heading out.
- The National Weather Service issued a winter-storm warning for the New York region through Saturday afternoon, forecasting up to 13 cm in the city and as much as 28 cm north and northeast.
- Southern California faced deadly storm impacts tied to an atmospheric river, with at least three deaths reported, debris flows and evacuations, and emergency declarations by Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
- Outage trackers logged about 58,000 California households without power overnight, and an earlier nationwide tally counted 3,974 delayed flights on Friday.