Birmingham: Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

[Ray Finkle]

EI-FCY diverted in earlier due to snow at MAN. FR24 shows it departed back to BHD at 09:20.

 

[Brum X]

We had an Icelandair Cargo in late last night. something like 02.30am arrival and a 4.00am departure.

 

[Brum X]

Sorry (Wrong thread) should of posted in the movements page, lol

 

[David_itl]

Looks like KL1435 /KLM77M PH-BGG is coming into MAN

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Watching FR24, KLM1435 (AMS - BHX) has carried out the strangest holding pattern I've ever seen. Now appears to be heading north to MAN. TOM 7675 from LGW holding to the west. RYR 1122 from TFS has been holding over Hereford has now left the hold and is heading NE (EMA?).
FR24 is giving BHX weather as 1000m along with 'SN' which I presume is snow.

Kevin

 

[Kevin Farnell]

TOM 7675 also appears to be now going to EMA.
Looking on Windy.com, at snow depth, it is saying 'Birmingham 15'. If that's 15cm snow, that's quite a lot!
[EDIT] I think it's meant to read 1.5cm.

Kevin

 

[Matt995]

airport was snow closed for around 2 hours, the delayed Wizz Air flight to Vilnus finally departed 2345 after the re-opening.

 

[Ray Finkle]

TOM 7675 also appears to be now going to EMA.
Looking on Windy.com, at snow depth, it is saying 'Birmingham 15'. If that's 15cm snow, that's quite a lot!
[EDIT] I think it's meant to read 1.5cm.

Kevin

It snowed quite heavily here for a couple of hours. I'm about a mile away and I'd say 1.5 - 2cm would be about right.

 

[David_itl]

If you look at the GFS "10 day" accumulations and compare to the 5 days ones, we can see that three's an awful lot of snow that potentially could fall from Wednesday (MAN is showing 7.4cm going to 18cm, BHX 2.5cm to 7.1cm)

 

[HPsauce]

Forecasters are certainly hinting at further 'significant ' snowfall later this week, particularly further north. Also a ' weather expert' interviewed on radio today said a 60% chance of a more severe cold spell later this month. A mini beast from the East mentioned.

 

[JENNYJET]

I heard similar from BBC on farming program, significant cold weather from East and prepare livestock.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Even a mini freeze is the last thing we want at the moment. More falls, ergo broken limbs, to put yet more pressure on already grossly overburdened hospitals, not to mention the difficulty that some elderly people would experience trying to get to medical centres for vaccinations. Even the distribution of vaccines would suffer if roads are snow affected.

I hate snow in the UK. We are simply unable to cope with it.

 

[JENNYJET]

Not able or perhaps forgotten how to manage? Reconsidering priorities like keeping car journeys to those with capable vehicles and those winter driving skills might prevent unnecessary accidents. Slips and trips can be avoided but needs the willpower to stay indoors, familiar territory given Covid restrictions. I certainly cannot see oil or that banana skin hidden under the snow so I do not take the risk. I learnt my lesson following a Trimalleolar fracture a few years ago which still causes significant difficulties.

 

[HPsauce]

An hours heavy snowfall Saturday evening caused chaos on the roads in Birmingham, purely because the council contractors hadn't gritted the roads. The likelihood of the heavy snow was well mentioned on earlier TV forecasts, but still was ignored.

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Sitting watching FR24, Cessna Citation G-SHUI has made a missed approach at LTN (due fog) and is heading in the direction of BHX.
There is a lot of freezing fog in the South East tonight with even LHR showing 550m visibility.

Kevin

 

[HPsauce]

You beat me to it Ķevin. More to follow I think.

 

[David_itl]

DCW123 9H-IRC meant for LTN looks like it's for BHX

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Bombardier Global 6000 9H-IRC also appears to be inbound BHX from LTN. It made one missed approach, held for at least half an hour then made two consecutive approaches before heading NW.

[EDIT] - sorry David, we must have posted at the same time. 9H-IRC started its journey in Dubai (DWC). Lovely looking aircraft.

Kevin

 

[Kevin Farnell]

According to the BBC, a private jet that was inbound BHX was escorted to STN by Typhoons after it lost radio contact. The Typhoons went supersonic in order to intercept the jet. I heard the sonic boom. I'd always imagined them to sound like a sharp crack, but this was more like a bomb going off. To the point that I was expecting to hear sirens shortly afterwards.
I remember looking at my watch to see it was 13:03 and I heard an aircraft immediately afterwards.

Sonic boom heard over East of England as RAF intercepts civilian plane

A Typhoon aircraft "safely escorts" a civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport, an RAF spokesman says.

www.bbc.co.uk

Kevin

 

[JENNYJET]

At least we have an air force willing to create a sonic boom over land to keep us safe and I am certain residents of East Anglia know about such movements.