Been watching today (augmented by my scanner), the storms made for a lot of non standard operation.
Flights from north and west that would normally hold in right turns south of the Bovingdon beacon were shifted to north flying wider patterns than normal, taking them nearly as far north as Bedford. Later they were also holding further out by Wescot.
The shift in the Bovingdon hold was making for some VERY unconventional routings for flights bound to Stansted or Luton. Monarch airlines flight 847 to Luton was sent round over Cambridge and St Neots before heading west again in downwind leg of a long circuit that eventualy saw him land on from west to east - runway 08.
Pilots and controllers both earning their corn - Chapeau.
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