{"id":67490,"date":"2026-02-27T05:59:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/weather-tracker-us-cities-close-schools-and-cancel-flights-amid-heavy-snowfall\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T05:59:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:59:47","slug":"weather-tracker-us-cities-close-schools-and-cancel-flights-amid-heavy-snowfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/weather-tracker-us-cities-close-schools-and-cancel-flights-amid-heavy-snowfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather tracker: US cities close schools and cancel flights amid heavy snowfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter Storm Hernando, which struck north-eastern regions this week, described as a \u2018bomb cyclone\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Winter Storm Hernando swept across the north-eastern US on Sunday and into the start of the week, unleashing blizzard conditions across much of the region as heavy snowfall combined with gale-force winds. Blizzard warnings were issued for several cities including New York City, Portland and Boston. More than 10,000 flights were cancelled, and schools closed in many states.<\/p>\n<p>The storm intensified rapidly through Sunday. Coastal areas of Massachusetts and Rhode Island recorded gusts of about 70mph, and Montauk Point in New York reporting stronger gusts of 84mph.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/27\/weather-tracker-us-cities-close-schools-cancel-flights-heavy-snowfall-winter-storm-hernando\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter Storm Hernando, which struck north-eastern regions this week, described as a \u2018bomb cyclone\u2019 Winter Storm Hernando swept across the north-eastern US on Sunday and into the start of the week, unleashing blizzard conditions across much of the region as heavy snowfall combined with gale-force winds. Blizzard warnings were issued for several cities including New &#8230; <a title=\"Weather tracker: US cities close schools and cancel flights amid heavy snowfall\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/weather-tracker-us-cities-close-schools-and-cancel-flights-amid-heavy-snowfall\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Weather tracker: US cities close schools and cancel flights amid heavy snowfall\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}