Hundreds of flights canceled due to storms across the US

Hundreds of flights have been grounded across the US from a pair of winter storms that left more than a foot of snow in New York’s Hudson Valley and sparked blizzard warnings across the Great Plains. The first storm is still bringing heavy snow Sunday across Boston and New England, the National Weather Service said. Regions to the north and west of New York City, including the upper Hudson River Valley, received from 6 to 12 inches of snow. “Poughkeepsie, they picked up a foot,” said Greg Carbin, branch chief of the US Weather Prediction Center. “Orange County, New York, they got a solid foot there. Port Jervis got 13 inches.” New York City was spared the worst of the weather, with Manhattan’s Central Park getting mostly rain. While the storm in the east pulls away through Sunday, a second is moving across the western states sparking winter storm warnings and weather advisories from Arizona to Illinois and a blizzard warning in New Mexico and Colorado. The two systems have contributed to 692 flight cancellations across the US as of early Sunday, with Boston, Newark, Seattle and Chicago hardest hit, according to FlightAware, an airline tracking company. Looking ahead, the western storm will likely bring heavy snow across the Midwest, including 9 inches just west of Chicago Monday night into Tuesday, and flooding to the eastern US as downpours land on the melting snowpack.<br/>