A low dipping jet stream barreling out of the north and moving to the east has caused wide-spread storms and blanketing many states throughout the nation with snow, causing transportation problems on the ground and in the air.

The storm had its beginnings in the midwest and the plains as far south as Texas, but moved eastward over the weekend dumping snow as it progressed.

As morning began Monday, before 8 am, over 1,400 flights had been cancelled nationwide bringing the total cancellations since the storm began on Friday to over 5,000. Cancellations are expected to continue into Tuesday.

Many of the cancellations, over half, took place in Texas, at Dallas/Fort Worth, as airlines there attempted to get a backlog of flights over the weekend back into the air were hampered by freezing fog on Monday morning. But, the massive winter storm, dubbed Dion, is creating havoc elsewhere for airlines. Dulles International and Ronald Reagan National airports in Washington is suffering from multiple delays and cancellations this morning, as is the Manchester-Boston Regional airport in New Hampshire.

Chicago O’Hare reports almost 200 cancellations by 9:30 am, and Philadelphia reports another 100 cancellations. Cancellations and delays are expected to climb as poor weather hampers operations at New York’s JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark.

On the highways, snow and ice is widespread throughout the midwest and east coast, from Missouri to Maine. In Iowa, a 20-car pile-up was reported on Sunday. No injuries were reported in that incident but the highway remained closed until noon Sunday. Also, the same day, Wisconsin suffered almost forty crashes related to the storm. In Delaware, a semi jack-knifed, shutting down the Delaware Memorial Bridge for a time. New Hampshire has escaped serious traffic accidents onMonday with only a few fenderbenders.

But the same is not true in Pennsylvania, there a deadly crash occurred on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that saw a 50-car pileup there, the state would see another series of crashes on Interstate 78 where over 20 vehicles have been involved in accidents.

The storm has affected even those not traveling in the air and on the highways. Power outages has affected over 80,000 customers in Virginia and West Virginia. Another 19,000 are without power in Maryland.

Many of the affected states are suffering school closures and delays as freezing rain forms on top of the snow that has already fallen.