Philadelphia airport delays begin building as storm starts dumping more snow

Snowstorm flight delays start in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — Some flights in and out of Philadelphia have been grounded as the snow begins coming down more heavily in the latest storm.

Southwest Airlines says it expects delays, diversions and cancellations in airports from Baltimore to Buffalo, N.Y., and has grounded most of its flights into and out of Philadelphia for Thursday.

By 8 a.m., Philadelphia International was the only airport in the region reporting major weather-related delays.

The area was expected to get up to a foot of snow in a storm dumping more on areas from Tennessee to upstate New York. For the Albany area, Thursday’s storm would be the second major one in two days.

For Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, it could be the fourth whopper of the winter, which is already the snowiest on record.