LONDON: Heavy unseasonal snow caused fresh disruption in Britain yesterday, leaving tens of thousands of homes without power, shutting airports and causing an international football match to be called off.
The country should be marking the start of spring but in what the British media have dubbed “Miserable March,” wintry storms have instead lashed the country, leaving one person dead on Friday.
Northern Ireland, Scotland, northern England and north Wales bore the brunt of the cold with 22cm (8.6 inches) of snow in Bingley, West Yorkshire, although snow fell in the capital London too.
Snowfall forced the closure for at least part of the day of East Midlands Airport in Derby, central England, and of Leeds Bradford Airport, Doncaster’s Robin Hood Airport and Humberside Airport in northern England.
Train services were disrupted in parts of northwest England.
More than 35,000 homes in Northern Ireland, 6,000 homes in Scotland and hundreds in northern England were left without electricity for a second day after power lines snapped, operators said.
Water supplies were also being disrupted due to problems with pumps, the NI Water supply company said.
