Heathrow Airport Closed

Sunday, December 19, 2010
Blizzards and icy temperatures to close the tracks, railways and roads across Europe on Saturday to disrupt flights and stranded drivers stop trembling on the streets.
Airports in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands and Denmark in order cancellations or delays.
Climate effects are felt across the ocean. A dozen Air Canada and British Airways flights between London and Toronto were delayed or canceled due to bad weather on Saturday. Half a dozen flights between Vancouver and London have hit a couple from Montreal to London.
Air Canada in a press release on Saturday the weather can travel to Europe to influence the next few days. It is expected that the direct flights and connections were likely to be affected.
The aircraft diverted three flights from London to Paris in the morning.
"Air Canada is committed to ensuring that customers reach their destination safely and that those whose journey was interrupted be addressed," said Duncan Dee, Air Canada Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in a statement delivered on Saturday.
London Gatwick Airport opened in the afternoon to 150 staff worked with dozens of snow plows to the start and clear the runway, but the authorities warned to expect cancellations and flights are limited.
British Airways canceled all short haul flights from Heathrow and said that some long-distance traffic can be used. The snow forced the closure of the take-off and landing runways at the airport, but said later that a band's Saturday open again, so leaving a limited number of flights.
"We currently have hundreds of people together, to take-off and landing runways, taxiways, is clear and stations and providing blankets and water for passengers and Heathrow, we are anxious to move," said the airport in a statement.
the state of British roads were treacherous, Darron Automobile Association, he said Burness. "One of the biggest problems is that large amounts of snow fall very rapidly to the surface of the ice and dangerous driving," he said.
Hundreds of drivers were on a motorway in northwest England, stranded after a flood, which spread police cars to food and water to motorists.
Jeremy Clarkson, presenter of the BBC's engine "Top Gear", he said to the drivers, their cars near Oxford, west London park. "It was bad there," he said.
In Italy, the Autopista del Sol - the land of the main north-south highway - was sleeping with hundreds of vehicles, their occupants cool in their cars, vans or trucks crowded. Although the snow was melted clear all or early Saturday morning the road was still closed in one direction, with traffic backed up to 40 kilometers.
The snow also forced high-speed trains available to the center of Florence Santa Maria Novella bypass, stopping at local stations.
Paris was sprayed with a light blanket of snow overnight, so many people ready for the start of the Christmas holidays. More snow was expected Wednesday, the most important civil aviation authorities and 15 percent of flights at Charles de Gaulle 10:00 cancel clock at 17:00 EST
Many flights were conducted in northeastern France, where the snow covers the ground and services were the airports in the cities of Nantes and Rennes canceled canceled.
A significant number of domestic and European flights were made in the German airport Frankfurt am Main, as he tried to interrupt. German German Bahn AG said it was pressing all the trains in service, could - but some travel delays. "All you can roll roll," said the spokesman Holger Auferkamp Deutsche Presse-Agentur DAPD.
The glacial climate has also visited a large part of Scandinavia, which canceled problems, mainly in Denmark, where dozens of flights at the airport in Copenhagen were. According to Danish news agency Ritzau, rail traffic between Denmark and southern Sweden, was interrupted due to problems also follow, partly because of snow, forcing passengers in the bus between the two countries.
starts in Sweden, where media reports point out that the country experienced the coldest weather this winter season from mid-1800 a number of traffic accidents were reported, with more than 20 alone in Stockholm.
Dealers said that bad weather unprecedented sales probably what is traditionally the busiest weekend of shopping before Christmas. London Brent Cross covered shopping center closed its doors on Saturday afternoon.
Elsewhere, welcomed a snowman tourists at Camden Market, as traders broke the ice and snow shovels in the driveways. Two groups of tourists threw snowballs at each side of the canal on the outskirts of the market.
Britain is the coldest December in the record, said weather service meteorologist Mark Seltzer.
"Temperatures will struggle to frost and snow that make it easier to overcome this evening, again in the eastern territories, Sunday, he said.
Police in Leicester, central England, said the snowfall on the discovery of a cannabis plant in the city has contributed. The officers burst into the room, after seeing that the snow is used on the roof of the building due to the power tubes in industrial drug research culture heat had melted.
Meeting of horse races and dozens of football matches in England and Scotland were made because of conditions, including a high-profile games take place on Sunday in London between Chelsea and Manchester United.

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