Severe winter weather snarls US holiday travel

Winter storms dropped heavy snows on much of the northern U.S. and throughout Canada on Tuesday as freezing blasts and blizzards caused deadly car crashes, closed major highways and created massive delays in air travel during one of the year’s busiest weeks for travel.

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued continuing winter storm watches and weather advisories for numerous areas of the U.S. including the Chicago area, which has been dealing with unusually cold temperatures for nearly a week.

Chicago’s O’Hare Airport reported dozens of flight delays and cancellations on Tuesday, where hundreds of flights have been cancelled during the past week as the city was hit by winter storms. O’Hare is the second-busiest airport in the U.S.

As storms hit the Northwest and Midwest, thousands of passengers found their travel disrupted or coming to a halt, as delays and cancellations at one airport affected flights at other facilities across the country. Air traffic at major airports including Boston, Houston, the New York area, and San Francisco were some of the hardest hit, according to officials.

“The airlines are doing their best to get everyone on track today,” said Michael McCarron, a spokesman for San Francisco International Airport in comments to the San Francisco Chronicle. “But (more storms) will slow things down again if that happens this week.”

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