Freezing rain, sleet, and snow from Texas to Virginia affecting travel today.

[randomness]

Alas, the image changes with the changes in weather alerts.
Airports from Houston to Charlotte have been cancelling flights. Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, the busiest airport in the world, has cancelled more than 800 flights, which is over a third of today's schedule.

Today would be an excellent day not to fly through any airport in the region. CNN has a story.

The Weather Channel has a state-by-state rundown. The National Weather Service's winter storm warnings are here.

Comments

[donnad.livejournal.com]

Haha, Now I know why you posted about this storm. It's name.
I'm amused. I do know that my name will never again be used to name a storm, it was retired because of Hurricane Donna in 1960. My parents were married on September 10, 1960, the day Donna made landfall and came up the coast. (No I was not concieved that night, it was another 16 months before I was born.)

[apintrix.livejournal.com]

ahhhhh now I get it

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

Hartsfield-Jackson Airport is busier than O'Hare?

o.O

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_busiest_airports_by_passenger_traffic. Top five for 2012 and the first ten months of 2013 were ATL, PEK, LHR, HND, and ORD, in that order.

(Full disclosure: I edited the 2007 and 2008 tables in that list a while back to fix some transcription errors.)

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

My favorite headline of the storm: Jim Cantore knees a kid right in the polar vortex during weather report

I love how he doesn't miss a beat, he fends off the attacker and just KEEPS TALKING.

This, my friends, is why you do not fuck with Jim Cantore.