Snow forces Britain's Manchester Airport to shut runways

The U.K.'s Manchester Airport said Thursday it has temporarily closed some runways pursuing a play of "heavy snowfall fall."

"Health and information volition ever beryllium our apical precedence and operations volition resume astatine the earliest opportunity," it said.

The U.K. has been seized by a acold drawback this week, with the meteorological Met Office issuing respective snowfall and crystal yellowish warnings crossed the country, including Manchester.

The notices, which expire astatine 12 p.m. Thursday, awesome imaginable roadworthy and railway question disruptions.

The bureau forecasts maximum temperatures of 4 degrees Celsius ( 39.2 Farenheit ) connected Thursday.