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SUMMARY: The Pacific Northwest of the United States continues to suffer the worst air quality in the world due to wildfires. FEMA is monitoring various weather events to include snow in the Rockies, wildfires in the Northern Plains and a brewing Tropical Storm Roslyn in the Eastern Pacific. Meanwhile Chad has declared a government mandated curfew, and protests can be expected in Lithuania and Burkina Faso. Today Securely Travel added Flight Aware’s AirT ravel Misery Index - tell us what you think.
Sections:
- Crisis
- Weather
- FEMA Disaster
- Health
- Government Travel Alerts, Advisories and Warnings
- National Travel Air Misery Map (Travel Aware)
United States: FEMA is monitoring - Critical Fire Weather in the Northern Plains, Heavy Snow Possible in the Northern Rockies, and in the Eastern Pacific we see brewing Tropical Storm Roslyn. (FEMA daily brief)
United States: Pacific Northwest - Smoldering forest wildfires are choking the air, as the smoke is causing the air quality to be the worst in the world (Reuters)
Burkina Faso - Demonstrations continue, as the country readies the inauguration of a transition president (State Department)
Lithuania - Protests in Vilnius (State Department)
Chad - Government mandated curfew - 1800-0600 - protests and violence (State Department)
The most recent weather alerts from the government of the United States entities- USGS and the NWS on weather, storms, volcanoes and earthquakes in the U.S. The information is dynamic and is updated every 30 minutes.
Latest information from the World Heath Organization (Pan American Health Organization) and the U.S. CDC travel alerts.
The most recent FEMA disaster relief and other announcements from FEMA Regions 1 through 10.
The most recent travel alerts from the governments of the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Singapore, and New Zealand. This presentation of alerts is dynamic and is updated every 30 minutes.
For a more comprehensive list of government travel alerts, visit the Travel Alert page (link above)
National Air Travel Misery Map
21 October 2022 - 0600 hours EDT
TSA flight numbers continue to grow, travelers should give themselves plenty of time at airports (and take advantage of the TSA PRE program to move themselves through security checks more quickly.
TSA checkpoint travel numbers
(current year versus prior year(s)/same weekday)
This data is updated by 9 a.m. daily.
| Date | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/20/2022 | 2,418,287 | 2,046,694 | 934,386 | 2,541,581 |
| 10/19/2022 | 2,093,881 | 1,647,089 | 694,150 | 2,245,199 |
| 10/18/2022 | 2,003,306 | 1,446,353 | 662,484 | 2,126,637 |
| 10/17/2022 | 2,357,405 | 2,001,297 | 921,031 | 2,514,673 |
| 10/16/2022 | 2,494,757 | 2,213,296 | 1,031,505 | 2,606,266 |
