Europe, frozen: snow forces the cancellation of dozens of flights and trains

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The heavy snowfall falls in much of Europe are causing flight cancellations and rail and vehicle traffic problems in much of central Europe.

He Munich airportwhich this Saturday was forced to cancel all operations due to heavy snowfall, was able to resume operations this Sunday, although two thirds of the planned flights could not be operated.

Restrictions for the second consecutive day due to heavy snowfall in the Bavarian capital and southern Germany has forced the cancellation this Sunday, until 5:30 p.m., of 37 operations between Spain and Germany, 18 arrivals and 19 departures, Aena has reported.

Cancellations to and from Spain

On this Sunday, 62 operations with the German airport were scheduled by the Spanish airport manager. As of 5:30 p.m., only 6 of them have been activated, both arriving and departing from or to Spanish airports.

The airports in the Aena network that have been affected are those of Madrid-Barajas, Alicante-Elche, Barcelona-El Prat, Bilbao, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Málaga, Palma, Seville, Tenerife South and Valencia.

For its part, the German railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB) has reported that, due to the arrival of winter in southern Germany, rail traffic has been seriously affected and that “there are train cancellations.”

The company warns that the cancellations and delays, which began this Saturday due to heavy snowfall, They will also continue this Monday.

And it reports that train circulation has been interrupted in, in addition to the entire metropolitan area of ​​Munich, the routes that connect this city with Salzburg and Innsbruck (both in Austria), Lindau/Zurich and the route between Stuttgart and Singen/ Zurich.

In Munich, public transport has also stopped circulating because the snowplows cannot cope when removing the snow.

Also in Austria there have been numerous interruptions in the road traffic and railway connections. Dozens of towns have even been left without electricity.

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The most affected regions are the Alpine states of Vorarlberg and Tyrol in the western part of the country, as well as the eastern part. Innsbruck airport has also had to cancel numerous flights in recent hours.

Meteorologist Nahel Belgherze has posted an image from this same Sunday made with a satellite. “With today’s clear sky [por este domingo], the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite has obtained a clear view of the extent of the snow cover over the Alps and southern Germany. Simply amazing”.



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