Mitzyboy

For those travelling

Eurostar is back, limited service
Luton runway now open, but airport says expect delays and cancellations
Delays also at Heathrow, Manchester & Gatwick
EasyJet cancelled all flights from Luton for this morning

Very bad black ice alerts all over the UK
More snow in the south, just showed Basingstoke and there are blocked roads

More snow and low temperatures forecast

Lionda

And it's still snowing with cars sliding all over the road and many parked up for the duration.

montgomail

My son drove 150 miles from Northampton to Bristol at 4 am this morning. Apparently no problems ...

Mitzyboy

Will be minus 4 in the midlands tonight, minus 2 towards the SE
M3 has been hit quite hard

Mitzyboy

M40 M55 & M6 near cumbria badly hit according to SKY
Chilton Railways - delays
Pictures of Basingstoke at A30 on SKY, abandoned cars all along the roadside

steviedeluxe

Commiserations to anyone who has to travel in the UK at the moment. Aparently a lot of councils (for various reasons, mainly financial) haven't done much gritting so roads and pavements have become skating rinks. There hasn't actually been that much snow (most airports have stayed opened or at the worst closed for a couple of hours) but it's been ground into ice in many places and made roads impassable. Perhaps more worrying is that in many places the footpaths are lethally slippery; I imagine the A&E departments are full to bursting at the moment. Good news is it's forecast to turn milder in the UK in a couple of days.

montgomail

Yep! Friend was in A&E on Friday night and said it was full of people that had fallen on ice.

Dick Dasterdly

Severn Bridges closed till further notice due to large pieces of ice falling from steelwork above the road.

HappyGoLucky

-18 degress in Aberdeen !!!!
Glad I'm safe and well indoors and not going anywhere !!
with a big bowl of hot Beef Broth and crusty warm bread !! Yummy.

bil

2 inches of snow and the UK grinds to a halt. This is the second time in a row at xmas that I got out of the UK as the snow started.

chulo

The news today had a guy from Boston USA moaning that there they get several feet of snow and he still managed to leave the US and now he's stuck in a UK airport because of a 1 cm of snow.

I agree the UK does grind to a holt when it snows, it just does not snow much.

But last year I rememeber about an inch of snow for a day, the year before that no snow, the yr b4 that no snow etc.

My point being.

Its expensive job having lots of people and equipment doin nothing for yrs.

Now if we had snow for weeks at a time for several months, every year, then yes invest in it.

Or just do what I did and buy a Landy, good walking boots and snow chains

spain

had a 10 hour delay yesterday.....flying with Ryanair and was stuck at Alicante, nightmare !!!!

Mitzyboy

Easyjet have cancelled dozens of flights again right accross the board. Delays at Heathrow, Stanstead, Gatwick, Glasgow. Big freeze again last night so many roads dodgy
Coach overturned near Penzance, not sure yet if due to icy conditions

Mitzyboy

Ryanair plane has slid off the runway at Prestwick Airport
No one reported hurt

rugbymatt

Two dead in Cornwall as a coach slides off the road.