Temperatures plunge across Europe
Though not much in quantity, snowfall brought excited Romans out for a snowball fight.
Schools were closed in the capital on Monday as the capital was hit by historic levels of snow. The vehicle transporting the prime minister of Sweden skidded off a road in the middle of a snowstorm outside of Stockholm.
British Airways cancelled roughly 60 flights in and out of London Heathrow airport.
The rare snowfall disrupted the airlines.
Commuters in parts of the United Kingdom woke up on Tuesday to snow, strong winds and the coldest temperatures for years.
A wintry blast of freezing temperatures swept across Europe, Monday, with a biting wind from Siberia claiming four lives and endangering the continent's homeless - with the worst yet to come.
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But even in the ordinarily more temperate coastal climes, temperatures were well below zero today, according to the German Weather Service.
- Croatia: State TV says the collision of a truck and a bus in a snow-covered northwestern region has seriously injured 14 people. Temperatures have dropped to freezing even along the Adriatic coast.
- Germany: Meteorologists reported a record cold for this winter of minus 16.6 Fahrenheit on the Zugspitze mountain in the Alps. At least five people died in incidents attributed to the weather.
Temperatures in Bucharest, Romania fell as low minus eight degrees Celsius Monday, with the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations calling in 5,000 officials to help people adversely affected by the cold snap.
Russian Federation itself was not spared, with its meteorological service warning of "abnormally cold" temperatures until Wednesday and temperatures in the Moscow region expected to fall to minus 24 Celsius on Sunday night, and minus 35 Celsius in the centre of the country.
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