Storm Ciara batters Britain, hitting flights, trains and soccer

 

Cars sit in floodwater in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, Britain February 9, 2020. REUTERS/Ed Sykes

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Storm Ciara lashed Britain with heavy rain and winds of more than 90 miles an hour (145 km/hour) on Sunday, forcing the cancellations of flights, train services and sports matches.

 

More than 200 flood warnings were issued across the country by authorities, including one severe warning in Yorkshire, northern England, where water was predicted to overflow flood defenses and potentially threaten lives.

 

The national meteorological service said it had recorded a maximum wind speed of 93 miles an hour at Aberdaron in Wales, on a day of storm disruption that stretched into northern continental Europe.

 

The weather caused major disruption to transport across Britain, with some domestic and international flights from airports including Heathrow and Gatwick canceled.

 

Network Rail, which manages the country's railways, said there was disruption across its network, with fallen power lines, trees and even trampolines blocking tracks, and warned people not to travel unless they had to.

 

All shipping movements in and out of the Port of Dover on the south coast were suspended and the Humber Bridge in northern England was closed to all traffic for only the second time since it opened in 1981.

 

Sporting events were also hit in Britain.

 

Manchester City said its Premier League soccer match against West Ham had been postponed due to "extreme and escalating weather conditions", while Scotland's Women's Six Nations rugby match against England was among the other matches canceled.

 

Winds of up to 80 miles an hour hit the UK on Sunday, as Storm Ciara swept in - pulling down trees and causing widespread flooding and travel disruption.

 

London's eight royal parks, home to more than 170,000 trees, were closed and even the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, a major tourist draw, was also canceled due to the weather.

 

In the Netherlands the same storm, Ciara, led to around 120 flights to and from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, one of Europe's largest, to be axed or delayed as it blew in off the Atlantic. All professional Dutch soccer matches were canceled.

 

Storm Sabine, meanwhile, forced the cancellation of about 100 flights to and from Frankfurt airport.

 

(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; Editing by Pravin Char)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-02-10

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Just another reminder of what " Climate Change" can bring.

1 hour ago, legend49 said:

Just another reminder of what " Climate Change" can bring.

Climate is changeable, always has been!

4 hours ago, legend49 said:

Just another reminder of what " Climate Change" can bring.

Indeed. Every storm or heatwave is now caused by climate change and "journalists" churn out their usual pieces. Used to be called weather back in the days.

It's not climate change. It's just that the weather is getting different. Hotter, wetter, colder and windier more often.

19 minutes ago, overherebc said:

It's not climate change. It's just that the weather is getting different. Hotter, wetter, colder and windier more often.

As with many terms, leftists have hijacked "climate change". As you stated, hotter, wetter, colder and windier. The climate, as always, is changing.

 

For some reason, some people want this to be an ongoing, pants-wetting, hysterical ordeal.

40 minutes ago, overherebc said:

It's not climate change. It's just that the weather is getting different. Hotter, wetter, colder and windier more often.

Your comment is brilliantly ironical. I'm sure you meant it that way.

20 minutes ago, Crazy Alex said:

As with many terms, leftists have hijacked "climate change". As you stated, hotter, wetter, colder and windier. The climate, as always, is changing.

 

For some reason, some people want this to be an ongoing, pants-wetting, hysterical ordeal.

Once again, someone who confuses semantics with science.

15 hours ago, Crazy Alex said:

As with many terms, leftists have hijacked "climate change". As you stated, hotter, wetter, colder and windier. The climate, as always, is changing.

 

For some reason, some people want this to be an ongoing, pants-wetting, hysterical ordeal.

'More often' was my point in fact.

15 hours ago, Crazy Alex said:

As with many terms, leftists have hijacked "climate change". As you stated, hotter, wetter, colder and windier. The climate, as always, is changing.

 

For some reason, some people want this to be an ongoing, pants-wetting, hysterical ordeal.

For a very obvious reason fro anyone seriously investigating this it's the billions or trillions that can be made through carbon trading i.e. Wall Street but I guess this is just another "conspiracy theory" lol.