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Travel Industry Hit By Cold Weather

Fri, 17-Dec-10

Freezing cold is spread across the snow-hit Great Plains and Midwest on Monday, playing mess with travel plans, with the sub-freezing temperatures reaching as far south as Florida. Air traffic was gradually returning to an impression of normality after hundreds of flights were cancelled at airports in Midwestern and East Coast hubs during the worst of a snow storm on Sunday. Another 75 flights were cancelled at O'Hare Airport on Monday, but delays were called minor.
Minnesota and Wisconsin trembled in temperatures not expected to top single digits Fahrenheit causing chills much colder than that. There were winter storm warnings posted for parts of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, western Pennsylvania, western New York and Vermont, according to weather department.  Pittsburgh braced for up to four inches of snow on Monday and another six inches by early Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh will have enough snow to cause travel trouble this time around will include.  Lake-effect snows continued to plague northwest Indiana, northern Ohio, and western New York.
The chilly weather was supposed to last until mid-week, with another storm arriving in the Midwest on Thursday, as forecasted by National Weather Service.