US: Around 1,240 Flights Cancelled Due to Midwest Blizzard

Blizzard warnings were issued in areas stretching across northeast Kansas to Chicago.

Around 1,240 flights to and from United States were cancelled due to a blizzard across the Midwest, stranding many travellers at airports on the final day of the Thanksgiving weekend on Sunday, 25 November.

According to Reuters, warnings were issues across northeast Kansas to Chicago. Bob Oravec, meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said that regions, including Kansas, central Missouri, southeast Nebraska had already witnessed snowfall.

Quoting FlightAware.com, the news agency confirmed that more than 1,240 flights were cancelled. Around 900 of the cancelled flights were those departing or arriving at the Chicago O'Hare International Airport and the Chicago Midway Airport.

Both Kansas and Chicago were likely to see “high impact” blizzard conditions, Oravec said.

Winds from 30 to 35 miles per hour (48-56 kmph) with gusts of up to 45 to 50 miles mph (72-80 kmph) were brought in by the storm, and 6 to 12 inches of snowfall totals were expected across those areas, Reuters reported.

(With inputs from Reuters.)