Storm Ciara reportedly kills at least six people as it lashes Britain and northern continental Europe with heavy rain and wind speeds
Lufthansa airlines said there would be numerous cancellations and delays beginning Sunday afternoon and running until at least Tuesday morning.
Huge crowds of stranded, frustrated travellers were seen at London’s King's Cross and Euston train stations. Train crews planned to work all night to try to restore service, but Monday morning commutes were expected to be long and chaotic.
The Humber Bridge in northern England also shut down, a move its website said was only the second time the massive bridge had been entirely closed.The Met Office said most of the UK likely had seen the worst of Ciara by 9 pm, when the storm had moved on to northeastern Scotland. However, forecasters predicted more blustery weather Monday, including much colder temperatures and snow in some northern areas.
Ciara was heading south through France on Monday with the electricity network company Enedis reporting outages from Brittany in the west to the centre and east. The whole Belgian offshore wind farm was shut down as powerful gusts caused the turbines to stop automatically for safety reasons.The storm, named by the UK's Met Office weather agency, brought gales across the country and delivered gusts of 97 mph to the Isle of Wight and 93 mph to the village of Aberdaron in northern Wales.
Two Virgin Airlines flights also roared across the Atlantic, with all three smashing the previous subsonic New York-to-London record of 5 hours and 13 minutes, Flightradar24 reported.In the world of sports, dozens of soccer games, horse races, rugby matches and other events were called off, including the Premier League match between Manchester City and West Ham.
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