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Index – Outside – Heavy snow and minus 15 degrees in UK, schools closed due to extreme cold

Index – Outside – Heavy snow and minus 15 degrees in UK, schools closed due to extreme cold

He has arrived in the UK Real winter: There is so much fog, snow and sleet in the area that planes are not allowed to take off. At Stansted Airport, for example, all flights were suspended after the runway was closed due to weather conditions. However, Heathrow and Gatwick airports canceled or delayed flights due to severe weather.

According to the latest news, there are also disturbances in the roads and railways,

In some parts of Scotland, minus 15 degrees was measured at night.

The Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink train networks have advised passengers to travel only when absolutely necessary as delays are expected throughout the day, does not depend on.

Some schools didn’t open until Monday, because parents and teachers couldn’t get inside because of the severe weather, and the heating systems weren’t working either. In the region, they expect the situation to be similar on other days of the week.

Rod Dennis, of British carmaker RAC, said their teams were a very busy Monday, helping 7,500 motorists with breakdowns, which is 50 per cent more than the average on a Monday in December.

The local weather service Met Office issued a snow alert and frosty weather Due to Northern Scotland and North East England from midnight Monday to midday Thursday.

The temperature in Switzerland was minus 27

It was unusually cold in the Swiss mountains on Sunday evening: in the Bavalora region on the eastern edge of the country, the temperature dropped to -27 degrees Celsius at an altitude of 1,970 metres, the local weather service said Monday.

According to Meteonews, the coldest temperature was measured at an altitude of less than a thousand meters in the small northwest town of Welschenrohr, where minus 17.9 degrees was measured at an altitude of 679 metres.

The Very cold in December Despite this, no record was made. Most of the country’s hail records were set in the 1970s and 1980s. According to the Swiss meteorological authorities, the lowest temperature of minus 41.8 ° C was recorded in January 1987 in the western village of La Brevin. The temperature there was -25.3 degrees Celsius on Sunday night.

(Cover photo: All Saints’ Church is covered in snow after snowfall overnight in Brinsley, southeast England on December 12, 2022. Photo: Ben Stansall/AFP)