relieving some very tired ATCOs from the afternoon shift.
Being one of those very tired ATCOs, i can say that the weather was horrible from about 1630 on monday. There was a line of CB's that stretched for miles along the south coast, working its way from the IOW and ended up sitting just north of DVR right in the middle of the CLN westbound sectors. As Phantom99 said the main problem started with MAAS refusing traffic because of the weather and the french not letting weather avoidance traffic enter them for the same reason. This meant DVR outbounds and EBBR inbounds went through CLN the wrong way against all the westbound traffic, which as we all know can be very busy, and monday evening was no exception. From about 2000 when the weather was north of DVR then all the westbounds went north towards REDFA and LOGAN against the eastbound depatures. It was very busy and challenging for everyone involved. Departures were stopped for a time because of the shear number that were planned through CLN and REDFA, a large majority of these were earlier flights that had refiled and were trying to avoid the wx around DVR.
My thanks to everyone involved, it shows how flexible both ATCOs and pilots can be when we need to.