Snow at Chicago O'Hare International Airport (Photo: Creative Commons)

Heavy snowfall from the Midwest shifted into the Northeast Friday morning beginning at 6 a.m. According the the National Weather Service, a significant number of areas are expected to receive up to two feet of snow as Winter Storm Nemo is predicted to dump snow into the region until Saturday afternoon.

It is a powerful storm that is already considered as devastating as the blizzard of 1978. Major airports along the east coast have announced significant cancellations and delays that will affect both domestic and international flights.

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Travelers and their families are urged to call in to their respective airports or visit their websites for the latest updates.

Flight tracking services FlightStats and FlightAware are also extremely helpful tools that aid travelers with near real-time flight cancellation information and statistics.

According to FlightStats, a total of 3,345 flights within the United States have been cancelled, with a majority of them located in the blizzard's affected areas of the Midwest and the Northeast. Another 4,115 flights have been delayed, as well.

To learn flight cancellations by airline, origin airport or destination airport, be sure to visit FlightAware for more. Up to this point, FlightAware indicates 413 cancelled flights in Newark Liberty International, 408 cancelled flights at LaGuardia, 345 cancelled flights in JFK International, 348 cancelled flights at Boston Logan International, and finally 126 cancelled flights at the Philadelphia International Airport to round out the top five. Chicago O'Hare International also indicates more than one hundred cancelled flights as well.