Heavy snowfall causes airport closures in the UK

Heavy snowfall overnight has caused respective airports successful the UK, including Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds, to adjacent their runways.

All incoming flights astatine Manchester Airport person been diverted elsewhere arsenic they would person been incapable to land, the BBC has reported. Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport is trying to wide its ain runway, portion Leeds Bradford Airport is besides facing cancellations and delays.

The UK's Met Office has issued 8 upwind warnings - six yellowish and 2 amber - for areas crossed the UK, with the 2 amber warnings (which pass of imaginable hazard to beingness and are considered much serious) for the Midlands, Wales and areas of bluish England. There person been warnings of crystal and snow, the second of which is expected to proceed falling done Sunday, with arsenic overmuch arsenic 40cm of snowfall forecast to accumulate successful the areas worst affected.

The upwind work has told the nationalist to brace itself for bid delays and cancellations, powerfulness cuts and roadworthy issues successful the affected areas. It has called connected radical to beryllium alert of icy conditions, with freezing rain, crystal and dense rainfall causing a fig of imaginable upwind hazards successful the country.