Travelers heading to some of the nation's busiest airports in the next two days should expect delays and canceled flights.

After a freezing winter storm shut schools, cut power and canceled or delayed flights, the South was slowly thawing Sunday.

Snow, freezing rain and rain are underway in the southern Plains as a potent winter storm strengthens Thursday.

A ground stop has been issued at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), the world's busiest airport, as winter storm Cora delivers a wintry blast across the Southeast. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stated that the stop went into effect shortly after 9 a.

Flight cancellations and delays are stacking up as a major winter storm makes its way across the East Coast, also affecting flights in Arkansas.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A developing winter storm threatens to drop snow, sleet and freezing rain on parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas as frigid air that escaped the Arctic plunges temperatures to subfreezing levels in some of the southernmost points of the U.S.

Snow and ice across the U.S. South are expected to relinquish their grip only slowly as the weekend continues.

Heavy snow and ice led to thousands of flight cancellations across the country as the ripple effects of the storm trickled through the airline networks. Airlines cancelled nearly half of all flights into and out of Atlanta on Friday, according to airline tracking company FlightAware. Atlanta is home to the world’s busiest commercial airport.

A winter storm that dropped heavy snow and glazed roads throughout the U.S. South was maintaining its icy grip on much of the region into the weekend.

A powerful winter storm that dumped heavy snow and glazed roads with ice across much of Texas and Oklahoma has lumbered eastward into the Deep South and elsewhere

Another blast of winter storms is closing schools, snarling flights and putting millions of residents on alert across parts of the Deep South and south-central U.S. The storm started dumping a mix of sleet and heavy snow Thursday morning in north Texas and Oklahoma,

David Paul Allsop, 52, of Bedford, New Hampshire, faces a DUI charge following his arrest at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, according to records from the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia. Allsop has been a licensed pilot since 2008.