Flights grounded and events canceled as dangerous deep freeze grips unexpected parts of US

Snow cancellations and delays whitethorn beryllium thing caller for the Northeast — but this weekend, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida were among the states that person seen large events canceled oregon postponed owed to frigid temperatures.

From the coastal Carolinas done the Northeast and New England, wintertime upwind was forecast — and was expected to origin question headaches connected Saturday and Sunday, arsenic Fox Weather has been reporting.

Airlines canceled scores of flights for Saturday and beyond successful anticipation of the utmost weather. 

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By astir 3 p.m. EST connected Saturday, much than 12,000 U.S. flights were either delayed oregon canceled by the nor’easter disconnected the Southeast coast, according to FlightAware. 

That fig included full disruptions from Friday done Monday. 

Drivers are shown navigating icy roadworthy conditions connected Jan. 26 successful Carrollton, Texas, arsenic a wintertime tempest moved done the region. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

The astonishing twist was the slew of cancellations successful — among different places — South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. 

"The dangerously acold upwind chills arsenic debased arsenic 8 supra zero could origin frostbite connected exposed tegument successful arsenic small arsenic 30 minutes," the National Weather Service said successful a informing for galore parts of Florida. 

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"Frostbite and hypothermia volition hap if unprotected tegument is exposed to these temperatures. ... Young children, the aged and the stateless are particularly susceptible to the cold," the NWS besides said. 

Throughout the Southeast, children's activities were affected. Even Disney and Universal closed their h2o parks.

A idiosyncratic walks down a residential thoroughfare arsenic snowfall falls successful Brooklyn, New York, successful January.  (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Disney's Typhoon Lagoon h2o park, located successful Lake Buena Vista, was closed owed to arctic temperatures. Universal's Volcano Bay, astatine Universal Orlando Resort, was shuttered connected Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 owed to utmost weather, arsenic Fox Business reported. 

Zoo Miami was to stay open, but immoderate animals person been no-shows. "They’re being kept backmost conscionable for the warmth that they need," said Ron Magill, the zoo’s connection director, arsenic WSVN reported. 

"Sunday’s forecast for Miami astatine 36 would necktie the debased people acceptable successful 1909," according to the Miami Herald.

Sunday’s forecast for Miami, Florida, could necktie the debased people acceptable successful 1909, officials said.  (Giogrio Viera/AFP via Getty Images)

Georgia shuttered galore attractions, too. The Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Zoo Atlanta, Center for Puppetry Arts and Michael C. Carlos Museum were each reported to beryllium closed connected Saturday.

In North Carolina, the Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey circus performances scheduled for Saturday and Sunday astatine the First Horizon Coliseum successful Greensboro were canceled owed to a authorities of exigency and snowfall exigency declared by section officials, according to the venue's website. 

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Here are a fewer different highly anticipated events oregon activities — conscionable a sampling — that person been canceled oregon postponed, according to the latest accusation disposable Saturday afternoon. 

1. Polar Plunge, Myrtle Beach, SC

Due to the heavy freeze, the yearly Polar Plunge successful Myrtle Beach — successful which radical tally into the frigid Atlantic Ocean to rise wealth for the section Special Olympics — was taken disconnected the schedule. 

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Organizers cited forecasts of "significant snowfall, dangerously acold temperatures and hazardous question conditions passim the weekend." Those funny tin inactive donate to the effort. 

Snow-covered cars enactment the streets successful wintertime successful New York City.  (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"We powerfully promote everyone to enactment home, enactment lukewarm and enactment harmless portion this tempest moves done our area," the event's website noted. 

2. Braves Fest, Atlanta, GA

Sports fans looking guardant to Braves Fest astatine Truist Park recovered themselves making different plans for the weekend. 

The Braves Fest lawsuit sponsored by Delta Air Lines was canceled owed to weather. 

Organizers cited forecasts of "significant snowfall, dangerously acold temperatures and hazardous question conditions passim the weekend."

"We were precise excited to observe with the much than 76,000 fans who had claimed tickets for the event," a connection connected the Atlanta Braves’ website said.

"However, fixed the anticipated interaction passim our region, we privation to guarantee the information of our fans who were readying to question from adjacent and acold for the event." 

3. Aqueduct Racetrack Weekend Racing, Queens, NY

The New York Racing Association (NYRA) canceled unrecorded racing this play astatine Aqueduct Racetrack.

The New York Racing Association canceled unrecorded racing connected Saturday and Sunday astatine Aqueduct Racetrack. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

NYRA had antecedently canceled racing Wednesday done Friday — truthful determination was nary unrecorded racing each week.

Aqueduct Racetrack said it would beryllium unfastened for simulcasting, betting connected races that tally elsewhere.

4. Penguin Plunge, West Hartford, CT

On Saturday, Connecticut was enduring glacial temperatures successful the teens. 

The organizers of the Penguin Plunge fundraiser postponed their Sunday, Feb. 1 event, which would person been the first-ever successful the town.

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Organized by the constabulary section to enactment Special Olympics Connecticut, the lawsuit is to diagnostic officers jumping into a mobile plunge excavation astatine West Hartford Town Hall to rise wealth and consciousness for the cause.

Anyone tin inactive donate arsenic they wish. The fundraising lawsuit is being pushed backmost to an as-yet unannounced day successful March, according to reports.