yesterday. it s the front that took dallas, texas, dallas-ft. worth was 80. right now they re 31. in 24 hours, they are down now all the way down to 31 degrees and it s now starting to see ice, sleet and freezing rain. i hope that you get to see sleet because an inch of sleet, you can deal with it. it bounces off stuff. if you get an inch or half inch of this frozen, freezing precip, this is where the catastrophic word comes in. as it hits the ground, it freezes up. 25 degrees right now in muskogee, oklahoma and it s rain. every drop that s hitting the ground is instantly freezing on everything and you can t get around in it. this isn t going to stop for 24 hours. we could get 24 hours with this precip of ice just coming down all across the region. sure, there will be snow. i can drive in snow. i can t drive on any ice and neither can you. stay home if you can.
yesterday was 80 degrees. now it s much, much colder. late wednesday, city parks in downtown dallas looked more like a california coast boardwalk. we re texans. it s 80 degrees today and then the next day it will be 30? so people panic. reporter: a massive arctic air and rain is threatening to turn these scenes of paradise into this. . it seems like the dallas-ft. worth area experiences epic battles with sheets of ice and sleet crippling the region every few years, causing power outages, shutting down schools, not even leaving children with snow to play in. city officials say street crews will be available to work around the clock, using about 70 trucks to spread a mixture of sand and salt on the icy streets if needed. this ice storm is threatening a downtown dallas holiday parade on saturday and the dallas marathon on sun. slippery ice doesn t go well with marchers and runners.
into this. it seems like the dallas-ft. worth area experiences epic battles with sheets of ice causing power outages, shutting down schools, not even leaving children with snow to play in. street crews will be available to work around the clock using 70 trucks to spread a mixture of salt on the icy streets if needed but this potential ice storm is threatening two major events, a downtown holiday parade saturday and the dallas marathon sunday. slippery ice doesn t go well with marchers and runners. the last wicked winter storm was in 2011 in the days leading up to the super bowl hosted in the dallas cowboys stadium. football fans struggled to navigate the treacherous roadways and street crews struggled to keep many roadway its drivable.
we re pretty upset with american. we re delayed again and we have work to be at and we re out $400 that we didn t expect and american is not helping. it s very disappointing. my flight is a little delayed but not too bad. reporter: back here live pictures at the dallas-ft. worth airport. we want to mention, those this travel here, yes it s bad in dallas but places like central pennsylvania are being impacted. upstate new york. i don t have to tell the people watching us in oklahoma or arkansas just how bad it is there. that low pressure system moving through creating temperatures that are about 10 or 20 degrees below average. usually we see this kind of weather around january not around november and that s causing a lot of mess for this week because that s you know, kyra, this is a busy holiday week, travel week. 40 million americans expected to travel 50 miles or more. so if you are traveling or getting on the road, stay safe and be sure to check those travel advisories. kyra?
forward. we had about 180 departures cancel this morning. that s going to have a ripple effect across the country, but right now, the situation is that the weather has gotten much better and the afternoon flying actually looks really good. most of the cancellations were in the morning hours and due to the fact that very few planes were here in the morning to take the morning flights. it s looking better for today and the rest of the day. we have seen things pick up in the last couple hours. are you saying the worst is past? are we in the clear? from a weather perspective, the worst is pass, at least for the dallas-ft. worth area. the afternoon schedule looks great, just a few spots of cancellations here and there, but a very busy schedule for the afternoon. we re aware that it s thanksgiving travel week. and it s a peak period for us anyway. and as it is across the country, so we re triying to get as many flights out as we can. we re talking about dallas, but what happens here