The heavy rains and strong winds brought in by a storm that swept across Northeast Florida caused issues for travelers trying to fly in and out of the River City.

This weekend’s storm could impact travel, as people begin making their way to their holiday destinations.

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The Jacksonville International Airport is expecting over 10,000 passengers to travel through the airport ahead of Labor Day weekend.

More than 2500 flights were canceled across the world today. 1000 flights were affected in the United States.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Thursday marked the tenth day in a row we saw measurable rainfall at the NWS site at the Jacksonville Airport. That is the longest stretch of wet weather weve seen since June of 2009, where we saw rain 11 straight days, from June 30th through July 9th. If the airport gets rainfall from Friday afternoons scattered storms (which is likely) that will bring us to 11 days straight of measurable rainfall. The longest streak of rain days on record for us is 17 days in a row, which occurred Aug. 30 through Sept. 15 in 2001. Here is how much rainfall we have seen at the Jacksonville Airport site since the wet weather started.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Tuesday marked the 8th day in a row we saw measurable rainfall at the NWS site at the Jacksonville Airport. That is the longest stretch of wet weather weve seen since February of 2019, where we saw rain February 26th through March 5th. The longest streak of rain days on record for us is 17 days in a row, which occurred August 30th through September 15th in 2001. If that were to occur that would make for 15 days in a row where we saw rain, bringing us awfully close to our all-time record of 17 days. Here is how much rainfall we have seen at the Jacksonville Airport site since the wet weather started.

As part of the Florida Department of Transportation’s Airport Road and Interstate 95 interchange improvements project, a detours of eastbound and westbound Airport Road and Airport Center Drive is scheduled from 10 p.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Drivers traveling west on Airport Center Drive who wish to continue to Airport Road will be detoured south on U.S. 17 (Main Street), where they will take a right onto Cole Road West, a right on Cole Road and another right onto Duval Road to continue to Airport Road. Drivers traveling north on I-95 who wish to take the Airport Road west exit will continue on I-95 north to the Pecan Park Road exit, turn left on Pecan Park Road and make another left on the I-95 south ramp to continue to the Airport Road exit. Drivers traveling east on Airport Road will take the I-95 south ramp to join motorists already on I-95 south. If you have an early morning flight on Monday, January 27, please be aware of Airport Road detours.