With much of the United States still reeling from a nearly weeklong winter storm, flight cancellations and delays and other transportation challenges continued to pile up on Christmas Day.
More than 2,200 flights within, into or out of the United States were already canceled by 5:30 p.m. ET Sunday, according to flight tracking website FlightAware. And delays of flights still able to takeoff numbered almost 5,800. Christmas Day is traditionally a light day for passenger flights.
The storm's effects in parts of the West are abating, though. The temperature at 3:30 p.m. MT at Denver International was already well above freezing at 46F .Buffalo Niagara International Airport tweeted that it would remain closed entirely until 11 am. Tuesday, December 27 -- extending out a closing originally set to end at 11 a.m. Monday.
On Christmas Eve, there were a total of 3,487 flights canceled, according to FlightAware. Friday was the worst day with 5,934 cancellations, while Thursday saw almost 2,700 cancellations.
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