Heavy snowfall caused significant disruption to transport in England on Sunday morning, where Manchester and Liverpool airports closed their runways, but also in Germany where around a hundred flights were canceled.
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Manchester and Liverpool closed
Manchester Airport (northern England) indicated on X shortly after 7 a.m. that the runways remained closed. “Operations will resume as quickly as possible,” the airport said, advising passengers to contact their airline.
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At Liverpool airport (north), “the teams are working hard to clear the runway”, which is also closed. Traffic, however, resumed at Birmingham and Bristol airports, where the runways had been closed overnight.
Snow also affects traffic on the roads. Operator National Highways said several roads in northern England were closed overnight.
In the United States, a dangerous winter storm
A dangerous winter storm hit the United States on Sunday, where millions of people in the eastern half of the country are threatened by blizzards and some localities will record the heaviest snowfall in a decade, meteorologists predict. The National Weather Service (NWS) has warned of the risk of ice, snow and strong winds from western Kansas to the coastal states of Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, over a swath of territory 2,400 kilometers wide . The agency warned that areas from northeastern Kansas to north-central Missouri would experience “the heaviest snowfall in a decade.”
In Germany, around a hundred flights canceled
Several German airports disrupted their schedules on Sunday: 120 takeoffs and landings were canceled out of around 1,090 planned for Sunday at Frankfurt, Germany’s largest airport located in the west of the country.
“Take-off and landing runways must be cleared” and “de-icing aircraft is also more complex and more demanding,” said a spokesperson. Poor visibility in the sky also disrupts air traffic.
In Munich (south), 35 flights were canceled as a precaution on Saturday evening, out of a total of 750 departures and landings scheduled at the second largest German airport, according to a spokesperson.
