2023-08-08 02:22:02
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of flights across the United States were canceled or delayed, and power was lost to more than 1.1 million homes and businesses Monday as intense storms, with the potential for tornadoes, hail and lightning, tore through eastern California. USA.
The rains began to fall in the Washington metropolitan area shortly after 5:00 p.m., with skies gradually turning gray, a precursor to forecast storms and power outages.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for the DC metropolitan area until 9:00 p.m., as well as a flood watch through Tuesday morning. A special statement from the service warned that “significant risk of damaging hurricane-force winds exists locally, as well as potential hail and tornadoes, including severe tornadoes.”
The range of the storms was enormous, and tornado watches were issued for 10 states, from Tennessee to New York. The National Weather Service said tornado watches had reached more than 29.5 million people as of Monday afternoon, with the area of greatest concern being in the Washington-Baltimore region.
As of Monday evening, about 1,500 flights in the country had been canceled and more than 7,000 had been delayed, according to the FlightAware flight tracking service. More than a quarter of the cancellations were at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, which was seeking to resolve damage caused by Sunday’s storms.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it was rerouting planes to destinations on the East Coast, and warned that it might start suspending flights to and from the New York City metropolitan area, Philadelphia, Washington, Charlotte and Atlanta.
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