{"id":502285,"date":"2026-01-08T22:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/502285\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:09:11","slug":"ground-stop-issued-for-sky-harbor-airport-lots-of-delays-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/502285\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground stop issued for Sky Harbor Airport, lots of delays expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Departures leaving and arriving at Sky Harbor are estimated to be delayed by about 30 minutes, according to the FAA.<\/p>\n<p>PHOENIX \u2014 A ground stop was issued Thursday afternoon at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport due to thunderstorm activity in the Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration ordered for flights to be grounded until 1:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Over 100 flight delays are listed on the Sky Harbor website as of 1:30 p.m. on Jan. 8.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA said departures leaving and arriving at Sky Harbor are estimated to be delayed by about 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Scattered storms have popped up across the Phoenix metro area and are expected to linger around until the early evening, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"548\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scattered showers and storms have now blossomed across the Phoenix metro area. Activity will continue through 4-5 PM MST. Brief heavy downpours, lightning, generally small hail, and gusty winds upwards of 30-35 mph will be possible with these cells as they pass by. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/azwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#azwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uJA0sDG93L\">pic.twitter.com\/uJA0sDG93L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWS Phoenix (@NWSPhoenix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSPhoenix\/status\/2009351054606127382?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Departures leaving and arriving at Sky Harbor are estimated to be delayed by about 30 minutes, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":502286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-502285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115861767309876150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}