Large portions of Europe saw a second day of transport congestion on Tuesday due to icy temperatures, as the continent’s harshest cold snap this winter resulted in six fatalities due to weather-related incidents.
Heavy snow and rain caused floods and power outages throughout the Balkans, resulting in a woman’s death in Bosnia and five deaths in France alone since the temperature plummeted on Monday. Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and Orly, the two major airports in Paris, planned to cancel a large number of flights early on Wednesday so that ground staff could remove snow from runways and de-ice aircraft. There were plans to eliminate 25% of flights at Orly and 40% of flights at Charles de Gaulle.
Trains in the Netherlands came to a complete stop on Tuesday morning due to temperatures below -10C, while temperatures in Norfolk, eastern England, dropped to -12.5C overnight on Monday and Tuesday. The British Met Office reported that “last night was the coldest night of the winter so far,” with further snowfall predicted and almost the entire United Kingdom on notice for snow and ice.
Three individuals died in black ice-related incidents in southwest France on Monday morning, according to authorities, and a cab driver in the Paris area passed away in a hospital on Monday night after drifting into the Marne River due to the cold.
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