India, Dec. 28 -- The US winter storms caused more than a thousand flights to be cancelled or delayed across the Northeast and Great Lakes regions due to snow from Friday night into early Saturday during the peak holiday travel season.

New York City received around four inches of snow from Friday night into early Saturday, which was slightly less than what some forecasts had predicted.

According to flight-tracking service FlightAware, at least 1,500 flights were cancelled from Friday night. Travellers got some relief on Saturday morning as both the roads and skies seemed to be clearing.

"The storm is definitely winding down, a little bit of flurries across the Northeast this morning," a forecaster at the National Weather Service told A...