As a winter storm stretches from the plains to the East Coast, more than one million people have lost power in over 20 U.S. states, according to the latest data compiled by PowerOutage.us.
North Carolina leads the outages with 165,654 electric customers without power as of 10:30 a.m. Eastern.
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Eleven other states have more than 50,000 reported outages at 10:30 a.m. Eastern. Three of those states border the Great Lakes: New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania. The National Weather Service says Lakes Effect snowfall can be expected for favored downwind locations on Saturday as very cold arctic air streams across the region.
Four other states with 50,000+ outages are in New England: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. The others are Georgia, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.
The NWS says widespread record low maximum temperature values are possible Friday from the Lower Mississippi Valley, northeastward into the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys and stretching across large sections of the east from the Southeast, through the Southern to Central Appalachians and into the Mid-Atlantic.
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Already, more than 2,600 U.S. flights have been delayed as of 10:30 a.m. Eastern on Friday, according to flight tracking website FlightAware, while more than 3,600 have been canceled.
On Thursday, more than 10,028 flights across the U.S. were delayed and nearly 2,539 were canceled.
The airlines are now proactively issuing waivers to help travelers whose flights are canceled during a certain stretch of the holiday.
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