(CNN) — Last week’s winter weather travel mess is lingering like a hangover into this week.
The post-holiday travel chaos spurred by the massive storm is affecting much of the country. The top five airports for cancellations and delays are scattered in different regions far apart from each other. As of 1 pm ET, they were:
• Denver International Airport (DEN)
• Harry Reid International (LAS)
• Chicago Midway (MDW)
• Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI)
• Dallas Love Field (DAL)
In hard-hit western New York, Buffalo International Airport said in its most recent tweet that it plans to resume passenger flights at 11 am ET Tuesday. The temperature at the airport was 16°F (-9°C) around 1 pm ET with light snow falling on top of the huge amounts the area has already seen.
Bad road conditions
Road travel remained treacherous in parts of the United States due to extreme wintry conditions.
“The City of Buffalo is impassable in most areas, while mains may have a lane open for emergency traffic or two, most secondaries as well as side streets have not been touched yet,” Poloncarz said.
He added that the cleared main roads are primarily for the use of life-saving measures to open up areas around hospitals and nursing homes.
A rough past week
A winter storm that swept across the United States was ill-timed for travelers who had started pushing Christmas week flying numbers back toward pre-pandemic levels.
On Christmas Day, there were 3,178 flights canceled and 6,870 flights delayed, according to FlightAware.
On Christmas Eve, there were a total of 3,487 flights canceled, according to FlightAware.
Friday was the worst day of this streak with 5,934 cancellations, while Thursday saw almost 2,700 cancellations.
This megablast of winter weather across the eastern two-thirds of the nation is forecast to slowly moderate this week.
CNN’s Chris Boyette and Artemis Moshtaghian contributed to this story.
