Just come back from a lovely EDI trip...having spent two hours delayed sitting on the apron.
EDI was initially closed to all departures because Scottish control closed the airspace for departures due to all the storms around the area causing a backlog in the system.
There was also a small fire in one of the substations near the 06 threshold. ATC stated that this was the reason for closing the airfield completely due to the fact that LVP's were in force and with the vehicles attending the substation being in the protected area, no take-offs or landings were permitted.
Eventually we were able to depart, but we did hear on departure that 25% of the 06 approach lights were out. I guess this was probably due to the fire as there was no lightning close to the airfield whilst i was there. Although plenty was showing up on the detector within 25 miles of the field!
Occording to our ops the airfield was closed again, not long after we departed and was still closed at 1800Z