Hundreds of flights across Europe were cancelled on Monday due to heavy and persisting fog, causing reduced visibility.
“We’ve recorded at least 120,000 minutes [2,000 hours] of accumulated delays across Europe of which 91 percent were due to weather,” a spokesman at Eurocontrol, which manages air traffic across Europe, told ABC News.
Incredible pictures of the fog were posted on various social media platforms throughout the day.
Norway's Seed Vault Opens Its Doors to Save Syrian Crops Sinai Metrojet Crash Not Caused by Technical Fault, Official SaysMost international flights were not affected but domestic and European flights were still delayed Monday afternoon and disruption was expected to continue on Tuesday, Heathrow Airport (Europe’s busiest hub) warned on its website. The U.K.’s Met Office, the government meteorological agency, predicted one more night of fog, which will gradually thin and break into showery rain.
Airports in Brussels, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Amsterdam and Paris were also dealing with fog.