Commuters hit by travel disruption as severe weather warnings persist
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Many commuters are suffering travel disruption from severe weather, with major roads closed and railway lines blocked. Manchester airport’s runways were closed early on Monday morning because of heavy snow but have since reopened. Severe weather warnings from the Met Office remain in place for large parts of the UK.
It was the UK’s coldest night of the winter so far, with a temperature of minus 13.3C recorded in Loch Glascarnoch in the Highlands, between Ullapool and Inverness. The Environment Agency has issued 166 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected, and 299 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, across England.
In Wales, there are three flood warnings and 34 flood alerts. Thousands of journeys on the M25 in Surrey are being delayed as the motorway is closed in the anti-clockwise direction from junction 10 for the A3 to junction eight for Reigate after a lorry crashed into the central reservation and came to a rest sideways across the carriageway.
The M5 in Gloucestershire is closed southbound from junction 11A for Gloucester to junction 12 for Quedgeley because of extensive flooding. Several stretches of A-roads across England are also closed because of severe weather. These include:. – The A66 in Cumbria in both directions between the A1M and the M6 because of snow.– The A628 Woodhead Pass in South Yorkshire/Derbyshire in both directions between the A616 for Flouch and the A57 for Hollingworth because of flooding.– The A49 in Herefordshire in both directions between the A4112 for Stockton and the A44 for Leominster because of flooding.
