The large storm system that created dangerous road conditions and white-outs in the Midwest is moving out of the Northeast. Cold air is on the way, however, bringing lake-effect snow across southwestern New York. Weather Channel meteorologist Chris Warren reports.
By Ian Johnston, NBC News
Snowstorms continued to rage on both coasts Saturday, causing further problems for holiday travelers across the country with hundreds of flights delayed or canceled.
The National Weather Service issued a series of winter storm warnings early Saturday for parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York and Ohio on the East Coast and also parts of Northern California and Oregon on the West.
As of 6:15 a.m. ET Saturday, some 470 flights had been delayed and 62 canceled, according to the website flightstats.com.
Chicago?s O?Hare International Airport was the worst affected with a total of 9 canceled arrivals or departures and 57 delayed flights, according to the website?s figures.
On Friday, nearly 700 flights were canceled and 9,300 delayed across the country by late afternoon, flightstats reported.
Thousands of flights disrupted across US as storm hits Northeast
Much of the Midwest is digging out after the first major snowstorm of the season dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas. Meanwhile, cancellations and delays are causing problems for travelers heading home for the holiday. NBC's John Yang reports.
Airport delays from NYC to DC?
Weather.com said the storm was likely to linger over northern New England during the weekend.
?Winds will be the most intense from parts of southern New England and New York to the Mid-Atlantic on Saturday,? it said. ?Gusts could reach 40 or 50 mph at times during the afternoon, which may result in airport delays from New York City to D.C. In addition, isolated power outages and tree damage cannot be rule out as well.?
?Farther to the west, the Great Lakes snowbelts and Appalachians will continue to see wind-whipped snow on Saturday,? Weather.com added. ?The classic snowbelt locations will see the highest storm total snowfall amounts (northeast Ohio, northwest Pa., southwest N.Y., W.V. mountains, for example).?
It warned people in those areas to be prepared for winter driving conditions with ?sudden reductions in visibility? due to the weather possible.
At Chicago's O'Hare airport, travelers who spent Thursday night there included Patricia Oliver, who called her attempt to get from California to Waterloo, Iowa, "a nightmare."
"They keep pushing us and bumping us and booting us back," she told NBCChicago.com. "We slept two nights on the floor."
Mike Quieto traveled three hours on a bus to get to O'Hare, only to find out his flight was canceled. "I found out from checking my cellphone, and they didn't announce that until after the bus had already gotten here," Quieto told NBCChicago.com.
More than a foot of snow
The NWS warned the bad weather was likely to continue.
?A significant winter storm continues to work its way through the Northeast tonight bringing heavy snows and strong winds to the region,? the National Weather Service?s website said late Friday.
?Snows are forecast to continue tomorrow [Saturday] with totals exceeding a foot in some areas,? it added.
On Thursday, two people were killed and seven injured in a 30-vehicle pileup on Interstate 35 in Iowa. Drivers were blinded by blowing snow and didn't see vehicles that had slowed or stopped, causing a chain reaction of crashes, state police said.
The storm was also blamed for traffic deaths in three other states: two deaths each in Nebraska and Wisconsin; and one in Kansas.
In Utah, a woman who tried to walk for help after her car became stuck in snow died Tuesday night.
The West Coast was also seeing stormy weather.
The NWS said several inches of rain along with several feet of snow in elevated areas were expected in California and Oregon this weekend.
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