MULTIPLE flights have been cancelled and many severely delayed at Leeds-Bradford Airport (LBA) due to Storm Otto.

The Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for wind for today on Wednesday, with gusts as high as 80mph expected on exposed coasts in northern Scotland, as a result of the storm.

The alert also covers Bradford - between 5am and 2pm - with wind speeds set to peak at 52mph at noon.

Storm Otto - the first named storm of this year - had been touted to cause widespread disruption and its already impacting the aviation industry in the region.

Two flights coming into Leeds-Bradford Airport (LBA), in Yeadon have already been cancelled, with one scheduled to leave the airport also paying the price.

The two arrivals were the 7.30am service from Dublin and the 8am flight from Belfast City - both operated by Aer Lingus.

The 8.30am Aer Lingus flight out to Belfast City has been cancelled.

Flightradar24 shows that the flights heading towards LBA from Dublin and Belfast had actually taken to the sky but have now both been diverted to Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

Meanwhile, the first departure of the day has been delayed by more than two hours.

The Ryanair service to Warsaw Modlin was due to set off at 6am, but is still yet to take to the sky.

The flight after that - the 6.05am service to Amsterdam, run by KLM - was airborne at 7.24am.

So far, it is the only plane of 12 services scheduled to fly on or before 8.30am to take off.

Storm Otto was named by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI).

It was forecasted yesterday to move east across the far north of the UK from the early hours of Friday morning.