Witnessed the earlier "scenario" at EDI when an intense thunderstorm sat on the 5 mile final to 06 and nobody wanted to fly through it....opposite direction operations for quite a while, with all arrivals on rwy24 and all deps off rwy06 (all of which were then weather avoiding). Nice work by those involved!
Subsequent airport closure was (I believe) as stated above....essential maintainance work preventing the ILS being safeguarded in cr*p weather. Welcome to summer.