Luton, Gatwick airports closed - Malta flights hit
Snow and ice continued to cause widespread misery and disruption for travellers across Britain today, with Luton airport being closed this evening because of snow. A Ryanair flight from Malta was cancelled.
EasyJet flights from and to Newcastle have also been delayed because of the weather. A service from Manchester tomorrow (Tuesday) was cancelled.
The runway at Gatwick Airport was closed during the afternoon for de-icing.
An Air Malta flight to Heathrow was delayed by an hour this afternoon because of congestion there as a number of flights were diverted from other airports.
The British Highways Agency warned drivers to expect difficult driving conditions during the next 24 hours because of a combination of snow, rain and ice.
Forecasters said there were warnings of snow this evening and overnight across the east and west Midlands, eastern England, London and the south-east and parts of the south-west.
They forecast falls of 2-5 cm in southern England but some higher parts could see up to 10 cm (3.9 inches), adding to the transport chaos since the cold snap began last week.
Heavy snow in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria had earlier caused major disruption to travellers, with some drivers abandoning their cars.
Driving conditions were hazardous in Greater Manchester, including the M60 motorway and some smaller roads were closed.
Hundreds of people were stranded at Manchester airport overnight after flights were suspended due to heavy snow.
In the south, Kent's roads have suffered icy conditions and heavy snow as well as a backlog of traffic caused by Eurostar halting services through the Channel Tunnel and the temporary closure of Calais port.
Eurostar halted trains for a third day on Monday as the investigation into the weekend breakdowns continued.
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Jamie Mills
Dec 23rd 2009, 17:36
Luton Airport is open and (almost) all the arrivalsare on time
http://www.ukairportinformation.com/arrivals-93-London_Luton_Airport.htm
Alex Ellul
Dec 22nd 2009, 16:46
@Peter Korsten: I m sticking my head in the snow not in the sand.
Alex Ellul
Dec 22nd 2009, 16:45
@Peter Korsten: You may wish to note that I am very well informed on climate science, having studied it at University and obtained a good science degree. Problem is that most people who blindly believe whatever they see on the mainstream media and catastrophic Hollywood videos such as Al Gore’s end-of-the-world An Inconvenient Truth, which has turned into a convenient lie as confirmed by the CRU leaked e-mails, Russian scientists’ claim of CRU abusing of Russian temperature data and the failed predictions by the computer models that 10 years ago predicted that this year we would be basking in the sun during winters. But having failed dismally in their prophesies and computerized crystal balls, the false prophets have now indoctrinated you with warped versions of their own predictions, such as, global warming produces colder winters, or, we will have colder years before we burn up, and similar Orwellian doublespeak. Should you wish to read what thousands of scientists are saying, it is readily available. Just for starters see here: http://c3headlines.typepad.com/.a/6a010536b58035970c0120a62f87f3970c-pi and, should you happen to know what science is, you will realize that climate change is only natural. CO2 gas has nothing to do with it. Lots more out there.
Peter Korsten
Dec 22nd 2009, 09:58
@Alex Ellul:
Please get informed before entertaining everybody with your unsubstantiated claims. Global warming leads to more frequest extrreme weather: downpours, snowstorms, the lot.it doesn't directly cause something like hurricane Katrina, but it does make this kind of event more frequent.
Are you really that ignorant that you think that something as complex as weather systems would just heat up gradually across the board, and not have different implicantions depending on location and season? And are you that ignorant that you think that one snowstorm means there is no global warming?
Yes, it looks like you are.
Well, one thing it does certainly lead to is higher sea levels, which for a country like Malta is not very good news either.
But hey,. feel free to stick your head in the sand.
P Muscat
Dec 22nd 2009, 09:04
Let's see how the low cost airlines will handle this situation!!
Alex Ellul
Dec 22nd 2009, 00:56
This is a semi-global snow storm, affecting a good part of the northern hemisphere, that commenced during the Copenhagen COP15 Climate Change conference (which flopped like when a mountain gives birth to a mouse) and is (the snowstorm) still at its best. Piers Corbyn, of Weather-Action, predicts that this will be going on for all December, while calling global warming theory 'Fraud with lipstick'.
God seems to have a sense of humour after all, trashing the money robbing global warmists, that turned-up waving communist flags at Copenhagen, with snow blizzards, and making Obama look like a fool all covered with snow at Copenhagen and back home in the USA.
In fact, God has been showing his sense of humour for quite some time now. It is known, in skeptic blogs, as the Al Gore effect. Because wherever Al Gore goes to preach his Global Warming sermons, he is showered by bad weather, snow, hard rain and strong winds, but mostly colder than normal weather.
Anthropogenic Global Warming was once considered as something to talk about, then a theory, then hyped-up news then hijacked by politicians who, with multinationals, turned it into a scam and now turning into a bad joke.
Please choose the reason of your report below: