More than 4,600 flights have been canceled this Saturday due to the powerful snow storm, described as a bomb cyclone, which has been hitting the northeastern United States since last night with

temperatures well below zero degrees Celsius

and strong winds.

As of 12:00 local time in New York (17:00 GMT), 4,624 flights had been canceled in the country, according to the tracking site FlightAware.

A total of 891 were canceled at the JFK airport in New York, another 556 at the LaGuardia airfield in New York and up to 608 were suspended at the Newark airport, located in the neighboring state of New Jersey.

The director of the New York Emergency Services, Jackie Bray, specified in a press conference that today

76% of flights have been canceled at JFK and 90% at LaGuardia

, while Newark has left 85% grounded. of the planes they had planned to travel.

"The combination of heavy snowfall and strong winds will produce dangerous snowstorms from the mid-Atlantic coast and (the region of) New England, from Virginia, to eastern Maine," said the National Weather Service, which warned that "travel in these areas will be almost impossible today due to conditions.

On the other hand, the director of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Janno Lieber, indicated that only two subway lines in New York have been closed due to snow and that bus service has not been interrupted.

However,

all trains on the lines that go to Long Island

have been suspended as a precaution , although he noted that he hopes that service will be restored tomorrow.

Also, so far, half a thousand homes have suffered supply cuts in New York, a number that shoots up to tens of thousands in the state of Massachusetts, according to the CBS channel.

Snow is expected to reach 12 inches in many areas and as much as 24 inches in places like

Massachusetts

, including the metropolitan area around its capital,

Boston

.

The governor of New York, Katherin Hochul, also warned of the low temperatures of minus 10 degrees and the cold winds that will hit throughout the night and asked citizens to exercise caution and avoid displacement, just as the authorities of the other affected states.

From Virginia to Rhode Island to New Jersey to New York, policymakers have declared a state of emergency and many services and establishments have announced that they would not open their doors today.

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