Hundreds of flights have been cancelled amid predictions of catastrophic flooding as a result of Hurricane Debby in Florida.
The hurricane, which has now been downgraded to a tropical storm, made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend area, near Steinhatchee, on Sunday evening, with winds of 80 miles per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Potentially ‘historic’ amounts of rain are now expected over the coming days over the southeastern states of the US, including Georgia and South Caroline, causing major flooding.
Already hundreds of flight have been delayed or cancelled at Miami International Airport and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. By mid morning around 134 flights were delayed and 148 cancelled at Miami airport and around 144 delayed and 111 cancelled at Ford Lauderdale-Hollywood airport, according to flight tracker website FlightAware.com.
Boston Logan International Airport also told travellers to expect flight delays in and out of the southeastern US as a result of the hurricane in a post on X, formerly Twitter.