Snow 'buried' London and Paris

The weekends of England and France have suffered from unusually heavy snowstorms. Hundreds of flights were delayed or canceled in London and Paris, leaving thousands of passengers stranded at the airport.

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In England, almost every road, tree branch, and roof is covered by snow. Some areas in the high mountains snowed up to 20cm thick. Cold temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius are recorded in most areas from North to South. Particularly, the temperature locations are forecast down to -13 degrees C.

Snow white everywhere

On January 20, the British Meteorological Agency issued a warning of "dangerous weather" for some areas most severely affected by snowfall such as Pennines. It is expected that the region from the east coast to the north will have to receive a new amount of snow about 5cm thick today, and this situation will last until January 24.

'This week the weather will be extremely cold. In areas where there is no snow, the icy phenomenon will occur , 'said Dave Britton, representative of the British Meteorological Agency. 'Some of this ice and snow can melt during the day but will quickly freeze in the night so the weather will be very unpredictable in almost every place'.

Due to the heavy snowfall making the road slippery, on January 19, a driver was killed near Oxford when the car slid off the road, crashed into a tree and flipped. Meanwhile, at London's Heathrow Airport, more than 250 flights were delayed on January 20.

Earlier on January 18 and 19, the total number of flights was delayed / canceled up to more than 500 flights, causing thousands of stranded passengers, lying, sitting at the airport. British Airways has had to apologize to customers.

Sharing the cold and snow-covered scene, January 20 airports in Paris had to cancel up to 40% of short and medium flight flights. Some airports, including Lille in the north and Beauvais in the outskirts of Paris, were forced to close on Sunday.

On the roads, many traffic accidents due to slippery road surfaces have occurred. At least six people were killed in the last two days of the week, including three French soldiers preparing to leave for Mali.

The adverse weather also caused Paris's high-speed train TGV to postpone many flights while bus service was almost stagnant. According to the operator of the Paris transport system RATP, today Metro subway system can return to normal operation but the number of buses returned to operate is only about 50%.

More than a quarter of the regions in France are being placed in dangerous weather warnings. Heavy snowfall caused many regional disruptions in the electricity system, including the Midi-Pyrenees in the south, which left 25,000 households in power outages.