Disruptive Weather
Weather is to blame for about one-third of all air traffic management (ATM) delays in European airspace, according to Eurocontrol, which is encouraging a broader effort to identify “practical solutions for dealing with disruptive weather.”
“With climate change, weather events are becoming more intense and less predictable,” Eurocontrol said in a mid-June statement. “There are more, increasingly severe, storms and wind’; rainfall is more intense. Weather patterns are different, too: In the northern part of Europe, instead of constant cold in the winter, there are variations in temperature, bringing icy slush and rain instead of the usual snow.”
A Eurocontrol-sponsored forum called for better planning and broader, continent-wide forecasts, including long-term foreca…
