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Sunday, January 25, 2026
Half million without power, nearly 10,000 flights canceled ahead of US monster storm
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More than 500,000 customers in the US as far west as Texas are without power and more than 9,600 flights are expected to be canceled today ahead of a monster winter storm that threatens to paralyze the country’s eastern states with heavy snowfall.
Forecasters said snow, sleet, freezing rain and dangerously frigid temperatures would sweep the eastern two-thirds of the nation today and into the week.
Calling the storms “historic,” US President Donald Trump yesterday approved federal emergency disaster declarations in the states of South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, and West Virginia.
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have declared weather emergencies, the US Department of Homeland Security said.
The number of outages continued to rise. As of 7:23 a.m. EST (2:23 p.m. Israel time), more than 500,000 US customers were without electricity, according to PowerOutage.us, with more than 100,000 each in Mississippi, Texas, and Tennessee. Other states affected included Louisiana and New Mexico.
More than 9,600 US flights scheduled for today were canceled, according to flight tracking website FlightAware, with over 4,000 flights canceled yesterday.
Major US airlines warn passengers to stay alert for abrupt flight changes and cancellations.
The Times of Israel Community.