Heavy snowfall is causing significant disruption to transport in England, but also in Germany, this Sunday morning.
Manchester and Liverpool airports have notably closed their runways in the United Kingdom.
The situation should improve during the day on Sunday.
Chaos in transport across the Channel this Sunday. Several centimeters of snow fell in England and Wales overnight from Saturday to Sunday, causing significant disruption on the roads, rails and at airports, some of which were forced to close their runways.
Up to 40 centimeters of snow fell in some areas above 300 meters above sea level, while in West Yorkshire (northern England) the ground was covered with 12 centimeters of snow on Sunday morning, the agency said. British weather agency Met Office. 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.
At Liverpool Airport (north), “the teams are working hard to clear the track”, which is also closed. Traffic, however, resumed at Birmingham and Bristol airports, where the runways had been closed overnight.
At least one train line, in the Leeds region (north), has been closed.
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Snow also affects traffic on the roads. Operator National Highways said several roads in northern England were closed overnight. In Hampshire (southern England), part of the northbound motorway was closed on Sunday morning due to flooding due to snow that fell overnight, National Highways said. This operator warns that several roads could now freeze.
Power was also cut to several homes across England and Wales. The situation is expected to improve during the day on Sunday in several regions of England, according to the Met Office.
More than a hundred flights canceled in Germany
Several German airports also disrupted their schedules on Sunday due to snowfall and freezing rain, with more than a hundred flights canceled. 120 takeoffs and landings were canceled out of around 1,090 scheduled for Sunday at Frankfurt, Germany’s largest airport located in the west of the country. In Munich (south), 35 flights were canceled as a precaution on Saturday evening, out of a total of 750 scheduled departures and landings at Germany’s second largest airport, according to a spokesperson. The disruptions even began on Friday evening at Berlin-Brandenburg airport, with 30 flights disrupted, including 17 canceled due to icy conditions in the capital.
The German weather office warned of freezing rain on Sunday after snowfall overnight, and recommended avoiding unnecessary travel.
