Airlines Cancel Hundreds of Flights as 'Dangerous' Cold Blasts US

Jan. 30, 2019

Airlines canceled more than 1,600 flights in the Midwest on Wednesday as a blast of what federal forecasters called "dangerous" cold snarled operations.

Temperatures will remain well below zero degrees Fahrenheit in the Chicago area on Wednesday and early Thursday with "dangerously cold wind chills" of as low as minus 50 that can cause frostbite to exposed skin within five minutes, the National Weather Service said.

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