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Storm Isha disrupted air traffic.
Some aircraft had to be rerouted via other countries.
Now the next storm is imminent.
Dublin – Storm Isha caused chaos in western Europe on Monday night (January 22nd).
With wind speeds of up to 140 kilometers per hour, the storm primarily hit Great Britain and Ireland.
The British weather service Met Office temporarily warned of the dangerous weather situation across the country.
In Germany, too, people are currently preparing for a storm.
Travelers are stranded in London.
Numerous flights and trains were canceled due to the storm.
© Tejas Sandhu/imago
Storm sweeps over western Europe: Planes have to be diverted over a wide area
Travelers were affected by severe traffic delays.
In Scotland, a man even died when his car collided with a fallen tree.
In Northern Ireland, a man also died in an accident involving a fallen tree.
According to Irish broadcaster
RTÉ,
tens of thousands of households were without power on Monday.
In addition to extensive road closures, train traffic partially came to a standstill - especially in Scotland.
Airports were also affected by Storm Isha.
Some planes were unable to land at their planned destination.
Numerous flights and ferry connections were canceled.
Storm Isha causes flight chaos: Dublin and Great Britain particularly affected
In Dublin alone, 116 Ryanair flights were canceled.
Dozens had to be diverted, others required multiple landing attempts.
As
BBC
reported, a flight from Dublin to Edinburgh had to be diverted via Cologne.
A Ryanair flight from Lanzarote turned around shortly before its destination airport in Dublin due to the weather conditions and landed in France.
A Ryanair flight to Edinburgh had to be diverted via Cologne.
© Screenshot Flightradar24
Travelers must have been amazed to suddenly find themselves in another country.
Flight radars in Europe repeatedly showed bizarre routes and landing attempts.
A flight from Manchester to Dublin had shuttled back and forth between Britain and Ireland for hours, then aborted its landing attempt and finally landed in Belfast,
CNN
reported .
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The stormy weather posed a major challenge not only to pilots but also to air traffic controllers.
Planes made little progress.
“The wind was so strong yesterday that we had a ground speed at which we would have been overtaken by a helicopter under less extreme conditions,” a pilot told the station.
The weather is hardly calming down: the next storm is on the horizon
However, Great Britain and Ireland cannot recover for long.
Storm Joceyln is already in the starting blocks and is expected to bring heavy rain.
Strong winds were expected, particularly in the north and west of Scotland.
Although these are not expected to be as severe as in Isha, train traffic in particularly affected regions will be completely stopped until Wednesday morning (January 24th).
It remains to be seen whether there will be another threat of flight chaos.
Passengers were also surprised when they found out on the plane that their plane was taking them to a completely different destination.
When a marital dispute escalated, a Lufthansa plane from Munich had to make an emergency landing.
(with dpa)