Originally Posted by Orange.Man

https://twitter.com/eurocontrol/stat...66993524854784

I imagine they know what they're talking about, also you've made the classic passenger mistake that everything is solely based off the reported weather at the airfield. The winds at 2k,3k,4k,5k,6k can be a hell of a lot faster than what is on the ground. To give you a clue, about 10 days ago, Heathrow was reporting a nice westerly wind at 15 knots, pretty much straight down the runway, However approach controllers were having to deal with a crosswind of over 70 knots between the northern stacks (holding patterns) and final approach.

https://www.public.nm.eurocontrol.in...pec/index.html - Also if you follow this it shows the current delays in minutes across Europe.