SRQ, Tampa airports cancel flights as winter storm moves north

Winter storms along the East Coast of the United States are creating snags in Florida air travel and beyond.

JFK Airport in New York tweeted Thursday morning that flights at the airport have been temporarily suspended due to strong winds and whiteout conditions.

By noon, LaGuardia airport tweeted flights there had also been temporarily suspended due to high winds and heavy snow reducing visibility. An hour earlier, a tweet from the airport noted that almost all flights there were canceled because of the weather.

Several flights at Sarasota Bradenton International Airport and Tampa International Airport are being delayed or canceled.

Four flights out of Sarasota Bradenton International Airport were canceled Thursday morning; an Elite Airways flight to Portland, Maine; A United flight to Newark, N.J.; a JetBlue flight to JFK in New York; and a JetBlue flight to Boston, according to the airport’s flight status page. A Delta flight to LGA in New York was canceled Thursday afternoon.

For those planning to fly into SRQ on Thursday, four flights have been canceled – a United flight from Newark, a JetBlue flight from JFK, a JetBlue flight from Boston and an Elite Airways flight from Portland, Maine, were canceled as of 8 a.m. A Delta flight to LGA in New York was later canceled.

Tampa International Airport had canceled 70 flights as of 3:25 p.m., according to a tweet from the airport.

The number of affected flights, however, could change throughout the day. Check the status of flights at Tampa International Airport here and SRQ here.

The winter storm causing the delays is the same that came through Florida on Wednesday, according to Spectrum Bay News 9.

As it moved north, the storm dropped several inches of snow in North Carolina. New York is preparing for blizzard conditions Thursday.

This story was originally published January 4, 2018 at 8:45 AM with the headline "SRQ, Tampa airports cancel flights as winter storm moves north."