The affected flights all originated from the UK. The primary, from Jet2, had taken off from Manchester and at about 8pm, after remaining on maintain to the south of Fuerteventura, controllers instructed the flight crew to land at LPA, as reported on flight monitoring web sites.
Three of the 4 different planes diverted have been from the identical airline (Jet2) and had taken off from Glasgow, Edinburgh and Birmingham. The fifth, from Easyjet, was flying from London Gatwick. By 10pm, the state of affairs had not but returned to regular at FUE. All of the diverted flights landed at Gran Canaria’s Gando airport between 9:45 and 9:55 p.m.
The Air Visitors Controllers’ Twitter profile reported the diverted flights on Saturday evening as a consequence of “storms approaching” Fuerteventura Airport, including that the climate state of affairs compelled them to make “lengthy detours” to succeed in the island.
Varios desvíos a Gran Canaria durante la noche de hoy por tormentas en aproximación al aeropuerto de #Fuerteventura. pic.twitter.com/eHpndSjXki
— 😷Controladores Aéreos 🇪🇸 (@controladores) October 15, 2022
The meteorological station at Fuerteventura Airport registered probably the most collected rainfall within the Canary Islands each yesterday, averaging 8.8 litres per sq. metre in a single hour on Saturday October 15, and up to now this Sunday morning too, having already recorded 5.8 litres per sq. meter in a single hour. In the meantime skies have remained clear over Gran Canaria, with vivid sunshine to start out the day this Sunday.
Nearly all of yesterday’s rainfall, and this morning, has been centred over the easternmost islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura
Spanish State Meteorological Company AEMET had, earlier within the week, already introduced the arrival of a DANA (Remoted Despair at Excessive Altitude) for Friday anticipated to go away rains all through this weekend for the Canary Islands. The anticipated a possible for storms.
