Flights cancelled ahead of snowy conditions

[_spirit]

Flights have been cancelled amid warnings of blizzard conditions set to sweep across the UK on Thursday.

*London's Heathrow Airport said airlines had pre-emptively cancelled 100 departures and arrivals, with disruption expected from 15:00 GMT.

*The airport said without the cancellations it could not reschedule the flights delayed by the weather.

*The Met Office has issued yellow "be aware" weather warnings for snow for much of the UK up until Saturday.

*Airports including Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast International and Belfast City airports are operating
as normal with no reported weather-related disruption.


*Frequent snow showers and strong winds are expected widely across Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and the north of England
on Thursday.

*Meanwhile in the south, there is the possibility of sleet or snow for a short time.

The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for wind and snow across Scotland, with gusts of up to 60mph in places as well as 10cm (4in) to 20cm (8in) of snow on higher ground.

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[scottish]

It's already been snowing, catch up.

[FlyingJesus]

Yellow warning literally just means "it might snow" we got that here and instead it's just pissing with rain as expected

[scottish]

Snowing here since yesterday

[FlyingJesus]

We've just had SO MUCH SNOW OMF IT'S LIKE GREENLAND IN HERE


jk it sort of settled a bit on top of cars and that's it lol gonna freeze overnight and become black ice all over the road hooray
I hate ice and snow

[Absently]

We've had no snow whatsoever sucks living so close to the beach

[Empired]

gonna sue bbc weather tbh they promised me snow and they even told me it WAS SNOWING MY LOCATION WHEN THE SKY WAS CLEAR

[scottish]

snowed again last night rip

[Matt]

I hope it snows so much that Heathrow has to close and I can stay here for another week (which isn't going to happen)

[Cerys]

wtf dont be daft matt who in their right mind would want to stay in england any longer than they need to !!


it was snowing lastnight when i was in manchester oh my lord i was basically more snow than human, covered in it! but doesnt look like theres been any back home in gods land