Storms in U.S. cancel 22 flights between New York City and Pearson Airport in Mississauga, Ontario

UPDATE: Pearson Airport officials said mid-afternoon on Friday that 11 additional flights between New York City and Pearson have been cancelled. Six of those flights were scheduled to arrive Friday from Newark Liberty International Airport (New Jersey) while five were to depart Pearson for Newark.

Nearly two dozen flights between New York City and Pearson Airport in Mississauga have been cancelled on Friday due to stormy weather in the Eastern U.S.

Pearson officials posted several updates to social media Friday alerting travellers to cancelled and delayed flights, particularly those scheduled between Toronto and the three New York City-area airports.

Airport officials at Pearson said four flights to LaGuardia Airport and three others from LaGuardia to Pearson have been cancelled due to heavy rain and other nasty weather in the U.S.

Also, two outgoing and six incoming flights are delayed while nine LaGuardia-bound flights and seven incoming are reported to be on time. One early arrival has also been reported.

Meanwhile, JFK International Airport in New York City is also experiencing bad weather that’s impacting numerous flights to dozens of destinations, including Pearson.

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Pearson officials said in a post to X (formerly Twitter) that two flights scheduled to depart for JFK on Friday have been cancelled as have two incoming flights from that airport.

In addition, three arriving flights are delayed while another two inbound flights are on time.

Pearson officials said later Friday afternoon that 11 flights to and from Newark Liberty International Airport (New Jersey) had also been cancelled (six arrivals, five departures).

Meanwhile, one incoming flight from Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. has been cancelled while one other is delayed and three are on time.

One Pearson-to-Washington, D.C. flight has been delayed while four others are on time.

Rainy leftovers from Hurricane Debby that flooded parts of the southern U.S. before moving northward to the American east coast and into Mississauga and other parts of the GTA are responsible for the weather that’s upsetting air travel schedules.

Early Friday morning, Environment and Climate Change Canada issued a special weather statement as remnants of the storm are expected to pass through southern Ontario and Quebec as well.

Heavy rainfall amounts of 25 to 50 mm are expected in the GTA on Friday.

Hurricane Debby came ashore on Florida’s gulf coast four days ago as a category one storm and as it made its way inland and was downgraded to a tropical storm and then tropical depression, it left many parts of the southern U.S. flooded.

Earlier information from Pearson Airport indicates more than 10,000 flights head southbound to New York City each year from Canada’s biggest and busiest airport. That makes the Big Apple the most popular single destination of flights leaving Pearson that travel outside of Canada.

(Cover photo: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration X)