Flights grounded at New York’s JFK and LaGuardia airports over thunderstorms

Planes have been grounded at two of New York’s busiest airports due to weather conditions.

Both JFK and LaGuardia airports have issued ground stops to some flights as a weather system moves through the area, affecting thousands of travellers.

Heavy thunderstorms are currently affecting both airports, according to the FAA.

The weather is expected to last until Sunday morning, according to local reports.

It’s the latest travel chaos across the planet as storms hit not just America, but Europe as well.

Holidaymakers were trapped overnight at Heathrow earlier this week and had to sleep on plastic terminal chairs after Atlantic storms grounded dozens of flights.

Heathrow and Gatwick Airports cancelled 125 flights on last weekend, impacting roughly 10,000 EasyJet and British Airways passengers.

After forming in the Atlantic Ocean in late June, Hurricane Beryl pounded the Caribbean, parts of the US and Mexico, sending a wave of torrential rain.

But its impact was seen hundreds of miles away in Britain, with torrential train and air traffic control issues sending the major London airports into chaos.

In Heathrow Terminal 5, which sees 10.5 million passengers travel through it each year, passengers unable to book hotels were seen surrounded by their luggage.

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