DALLAS – Freezing rain and drizzle are disrupting from central Texas to the Great Lakes, with icy roads causing many traffic accidents, and one in Kentucky that killed a young child.
Hundreds of flights were canceled Wednesday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas prepared for an ice storm.
More than an inch of ice is likely to build up in parts of the Ozarks Friday morning, while freezing rain is expected to hit south-central Pennsylvania and western Maryland, the National Weather Service said.
In western Kentucky, ice on a bridge caused collisions that left one user dead in childhood and interstate lanes closed for hours, officials said.
Seven collisions involving 12 semi-trucks and six passenger cars were reported Wednesday night on Interstate 24 in Marshall County due to ice on the Tennessee River Bridge, Kentucky State Police said in a statement.
In a twist of fate involving two semi-trailers, an 18-month-old boy shot out and then drove through a car, police said. The baby was pronounced dead at the scene by the Marshall County coroner.
In Arkansas, dozens of schools closed or switched to distance education Thursday, while another circular of freezing rain was expected at noon.
Airlines had canceled more than 2,000 flights by Thursday night Wednesday night, according to FlightAware. com. About a portion of them were at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, where temperatures were only expected to break freezing shortly after Thursday afternoon.
DFW Airport is the largest in american Airlines’ network, and American canceled 21 of its flights Thursday night, according to FlightAware.
Meanwhile, heavy snowfall was expected in upstate New York and New England later this week, with more than 15 centimeters imaginable through Saturday morning.
Winter took a short break in the Northeast on Wednesday, with temperatures reaching 60 degrees before dropping in a matter of hours.
The heat wave sent other people outside, but that’s bad news for ski resorts.
“It’s not exactly what you need to see in the middle of the busiest week of the year,” said Ethan Austin, a spokesman for the Sugarloaf ski domain in Maine, which is busy because of the school holiday week. snow on your way.
The spicy weather marked the time in less than a week that there had to be a temperature variation of more than 40 degrees in 24 hours.
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